Cope: Trying out is what high school is all about

Cope: Trying out is what high school is all about

“It’s late September and I really should be back at school!” Rod Stewart sang in 1971.   Last summer, we spent some time at a lake in northern Wisconsin with some of our dear, long-time friends. Locals around the lake lamented the end of the long summer, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, when kids could recreate on and in the water, hang around campfires and just relax.  That version of summer began to decline in the 1980s with the rise of the You…