This is what I meant when I said it was sad. There was clearly so much pressure on that kid, and it sounds like he didn't get much chance to play. I can understand the parents' POV, and yet sometimes I think these kids who are compelled to achieve by family pressure crash and burn later on. It can get to be overwhelming, and I worry that a kid like this is going to go off the rails when a failure happens.
Everyone is under pressure. His peers in his neighborhood dealt with the pressure by conforming with the status quo, as most people do, and their parents dealt with it by letting their kids do what the other kids were doing.
I think its sad to think that most of the kids in his area did not have high expectations put on them. And are now basically lost.
I heard a term once, "The Tyranny of Low Expectations."
At least no one tried to beat him up - but mainly because he was a star athlete.
