As a PE-backed group prepares to open an ‘elite student athletes’ boarding school in Stow (BBJ), Norway’s taken the complete opposite approach to nurturing youth athletes, according to this piece at the WSJ. … Don’t get me going about the growing corporatization of youth sports in America. Not content with running for-profit youth sports leagues, venues and merchandise, the new youth sports profiteers are now actually trying to make a buck off of kids and their deluded rich parents by launching 24/7 boarding schools? Too true. … I have a feeling Sen. Chris Murphy won’t be sending his son to Stow this fall.
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