Shame on Arlington County HS Volleyball Coaches

[Anonymous]

Shame on you for not helping your kid become a competitive player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:File a title IX complaint. These 8th graders are not students of the school and do not count for compliance numbers

https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/content/public/v/8/government/programs/health/project-peace/title-ix-and-sexual-harassment/aps-know-your-ix-handout.pdf

What? Title IX covers sex based discrimination. HS volleyball players aren't losing spots to boys but to younger girls. That isn't a Title IX violation nor is age a protected class under strict scrutiny.

[Anonymous]

HS teams are SCHOOL teams...hence the school name on the front of the jersey. Students that attend that school should get priority. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

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This. This isn’t club. Enrolled students were denied spots on their school’s team to students not enrolled in that school. And that’s crappy.

[Anonymous]

Yorktown parents are very good at making themselves heard by their school administrators. I hope the parents complaining here at least let the AD know what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
the rule does not mandate the coaches to take 8th grade kids. The spirit of the rule was to fill in gaps when HS was short players. This is not the case.

That’s your interpretation of it, not the school or VHSL.

CAN YOU STOP REPEATING YOURSELF?????????? You're completely insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shame on you for not helping your kid become a competitive player.

This is public HS sports not elite club sports. ⚽️

[Anonymous]

What about the parent who had their eighth grader play HS sport, then held them back for a home school repeat of 8th grade- all so they y have an unfair advantage their senior year as a 19 yo against 13-14 yo. It’s getting insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the origin/intent of this policy bc it seems more applicable to boys’ sports like football where there are more positions to fill as opposed to women’s volleyball where the teams are much smaller and demand is much higher especially at large high schools like Yorktown, Langley, Wakefield etc. If a school of over 2000 students has a volleyball team of +/- 40 spots between freshman, JV and Varsity it does seem pretty inequitable to make sophomores compete against all grades plus now 8th graders too. Why can’t the 8th graders have their own MS teams?

How are we even certain that these middle schoolers will go to the high school they are playing for? They might go private or apply to TJ or the IB program.

My solution to the lack of spots would be to allow more volleyball teams in HS instead of persisting with the team cut culture. The priority should be participation in fitness promoting activities.

They have to be in the high school zone in order to play for that HS. They don't have to attend, once they are in 9th grade, but then obviously can't play for the same team.

OP: are tryouts already complete for VB? They just started on Mon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8th graders are allowed to try-out for the fall sports- Freshman Football, Cross
Country, Volleyball and Field Hockey. In the Spring, 8th graders are allowed to try out for Softball, Baseball, Boys Lacrosse, Girls
Lacrosse, and Crew.
These sports are offered to 8th graders because they are not offered at the middle school level, and the Virginia High School League allows 8th graders to participate on the JV level without affecting their high
school eligibility.

This is not just Arlington.

^^This with one clarification. If the 8th grader participates in a Varsity sport like tennis (there is no JV tennis in FCPS or APS), he/she only has three years of eligibility when he/she enters high school for that particular sport.

When my DD was an 8th grader at Cooper MS, she wanted to play Varsity tennis for Langley HS. I looked into this, and it was confirmed by the AD of Langley HS that the rules allowed it because there was no tennis at Cooper MS. DD got accepted to Sidwell so she didn't play at Langley.

​Not just APS but FCPS as well.



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APS middle school have tennis so 8th graders are not eligible for the HS tennis team. Eligibility is only for sports that are not offered in MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are we even certain that these middle schoolers will go to the high school they are playing for? They might go private or apply to TJ or the IB program.

My solution to the lack of spots would be to allow more volleyball teams in HS instead of persisting with the team cut culture. The priority should be participation in fitness promoting activities.

Are you willing to pay more taxes to build more gym in order to accommodate more VB teams?

[Anonymous]

I am fine with the team cut culture but it needs to stick to the kids in that particular school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
the rule does not mandate the coaches to take 8th grade kids. The spirit of the rule was to fill in gaps when HS was short players. This is not the case.

That’s your interpretation of it, not the school or VHSL.

CAN YOU STOP REPEATING YOURSELF?????????? You're completely insufferable.

Do you have solutions to this problem? Will the administration go along with it?

[Anonymous]

I believe my kid’s former club coach became the coach at Yorktown a few years ago. This would be very on brand for this person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File a title IX complaint. These 8th graders are not students of the school and do not count for compliance numbers

https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/content/public/v/8/government/programs/health/project-peace/title-ix-and-sexual-harassment/aps-know-your-ix-handout.pdf

What? Title IX covers sex based discrimination. HS volleyball players aren't losing spots to boys but to younger girls. That isn't a Title IX violation nor is age a protected class under strict scrutiny.

Having more boys able to participate in sports than girls is a title IX violation. Fall sports are designed to be balanced. Take enough 8th graders and female students at the school no longer have the same opportunity as boys.