Except that, sadly, clubs and schools have shown year on year that they can't manage it. Generally managing it falls to the parents and kid. When "the system" puts two teams head to head I think most coaches will try to get the player to pick their team over the other team (and I've been guilty of this in the past myself). It's very difficult.
Fair one. The idea of not showing up for a team when they are expecting you/playing week about is not ok. I am more thinking about 15/16s for club and U18/1st team for school on the same day. No timing clash, and training times can be worked out if both coaches are talking and on the same page. I spoke with a chap from Ireland who used to play twice a day in the mornings then bus across the way to a night game too. He was laughing at the "that player is mine and MY team is the one and only" bullshit he was hearing. If we are getting all these lovely artificial pitches with lights etc then a night league is not out of the question surely? My mind has now become distracted with the possibilities this brings...I shall return, probably after school...
Main concern would be player overload. Kids that age think they're bulletproof. Modern Sports science thinks otherwise.
Talking sports science: Whatever happened to Ed Baranowski? Is he still at Mainland? Apart from the early sessions a few years back where he was informing all of his pedigree and why chocolate milk after exercise was a good idea, don' think clubland has seen or heard from him since. Another part of the MF wage bill paid by all that only benefits a small group of FTC players?