Pay To Play

I just read where a kid has to pay a fee or "donation" to play a sport or after school activity.  I am agin' it.  It means that poor kids will less likely enter into these programs.  I aways wondered why cross country is dominated by white kids.  Now I know.  The more affluent can afford this.  The less affluent cannot.  Plus, this puts more pressure on the participant.  If someone put up the money for you to compete or play, that makes for pressure.  What happened to fun in school?  We used to charge "pew fees" to go to my church when I was a boy.  I heard where the poor could go for free but had to sit in the poor section.  We got rid of that.  Seems schools are going in the other direction.