I am sure many parents can attest to seeing their kids being cut from activities they love and the disappointment that comes from it. Plenty of kids played on travel teams for sports like soccer and baseball their whole life only to get cut in high school. They get left out of the friend group they grew up with. People make high school sports seem like a common extracurricular when it’s actually pretty rare to make the freshman or JV team. And many of those kids never make it to varsity.
Life is just too competitive. It’s so hard to excel when so many kids have been doing the same activity since they were 8