Posted On: July 9th 2026, 04:51 am
A kid drops 45 points against a weak team. The caption calls him "elite." He's in the tenth grade.
I've been sitting with a question lately: when did we start handing out the word "great" before anyone's actually earned it? And what is that doing to the kids we're saying it about?
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