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I wouldn't do this for junior high - you're going to be shelling out enough money for it in high school. My poor parents probably shelled out $500 or so for that silly jacket - I think it was $250 or so to buy (and this was 11 years ago when I was a frosh!) and then they had to pay extra to get your name. My school doled out a crapload of letters and patches - class year for being on a freshman team, little letter for being on a junior varsity team, then the big letter for varsity. There were also letters for band, math team, physics team, general academics, forensics...I think I "earned" 6 letters and a lot of people layered theirs but I just wore the athletic ones and then pins for everything else. One of my high school boyfriends was an All-American athlete and his poor mom had it way worse because she was sewing on medals after every meet and patches for conference champion, state champion, etc. Now it lives in my mom and dad's coat closet!
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