Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:i think its a bad lesson for the kids. When the going gets tough you get to take a week off?
That makes no sense - it's more like when the going gets dangerous it's okay to say no. Putting a bunch of 14 years olds up against 18 year olds in a football game makes no sense. Most schools with real football programs wouldn't have many/any 9th graders on varsity. I think Sidwell made the right call. What's odd is that they only have 30 boys in the whole upper school playing football. Even Maret can field a football team and they have probably 100 fewer boys to draw from.
Potomac [MAC] and Bullis [IAC] plus SSSA [IAC] all have active healthy football programs and are coed. Even less students than Sidwell. Maret has recently produced players for college. All these schools plus STA, Landon, Prep have student athletes who have high GPA's and SAT's in the football programs.
My guess? Sidwell students are busy with social stuff and can't take the time for football. Soccer rosters are small so it's not like lacrosse and baseball.