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How economic privilege creates unrealistic athletic expectations for coaches

I coach volleyball at a private school and the parents expect their daughters to play in college but most of them are not good enough and I have to pretend otherwise in meetings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Parents expect you to pretend their kids are better than they really are.

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