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<p>I’m sure it is more popular on the East Coast, but the big public school I went to had a lacrosse team. As for stuff like fencing, field hockey, and the like, if you think that sports like that unfairly favors wealthy people, then target those specific avenues of advantage. Don’t make a blanket statement that wealth is an advantage, because there is a large subset of people that it didn’t go to school with fencing teams. This, of course, assumes that you don’t expect kids to move to attend private schools just because their families have money. Even this wouldn’t make a lot of sense, because I’m not convinced that prep schools are really any better than high-end public schools (especially in the midwest, where I think the publics are better.) So you’d have to be uprooting to be able to join a fencing team, because the education is often not worth it. </p>
<p>Again, it’s more effective to just eliminate recruiting to these weird sports if you think they unfairly hurt the middle class.</p>