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Old Tue Aug 19, 2008, 08:26pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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JR - the only way this kid will learn not to do it again is if you call it. If you don't, he has learned only that officials are inconsistent when it comes to enforcing the rules. Is that the lesson you want him to learn?

You seem to indicate that since it's "only" a 12U game, it doesn't matter. Gotta disagree with you. In our local kids rec league, our philosophy (and policy) for over 30 years is to enforce the rules, then explain it if you need to, so the kids actually learn the right way to do something. Not enforcing rules just confuses them and causes problems for the league, especially for the next official that has their game and has the same situation come up.
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