Schools that don't have a football team

[Anonymous]

Burke, Field, GDS, Maret, WIS all come to mind. But even at schools like Sidwell football is not even close to affecting the culture of the school.

[Anonymous]

Maret has football.

[Anonymous]

What a weird question. My super liberal high school and college both had football teams, but no "football culture" (whatever that is). I think you need a better barometer.

[Anonymous]

So, let me get this right. You want your kid to have a high school experience that does not include football, not just that you don't want him to play, you don't even want the school to have a team, correct? Fortunately for you, there are a plethora of choices for such a cloistered non-contact existence. There are the WIS Wimps and the GDS Grasshoppers, just to name a few. Try those to combat your pigskinophobia. This place never ceases to amaze me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this right. You want your kid to have a high school experience that does not include football, not just that you don't want him to play, you don't even want the school to have a team, correct? Fortunately for you, there are a plethora of choices for such a cloistered non-contact existence. There are the WIS Wimps and the GDS Grasshoppers, just to name a few. Try those to combat your pigskinophobia. This place never ceases to amaze me.

Funny as this is, it should be pointed out that WIS kids would likely kick your kids' behind in soccer and tennis--sports that are infinitely more popular in the rest of the world--while effortlessly speaking 3-4 languages apiece. But do enjoy your Washington Rednecks games!

[Anonymous]

St Andrew's does not have a football team. As for OP, is it really just football culture that is your concern or more generally school cultures that emphasize competitive sports in a way that overshadows other aspects of the school -- special privileges for athletes, etc? This can happen in some private schools with other team sports as well.

[Anonymous]

WIS's soccer team is fairly non-competitive in the region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this right. You want your kid to have a high school experience that does not include football, not just that you don't want him to play, you don't even want the school to have a team, correct? Fortunately for you, there are a plethora of choices for such a cloistered non-contact existence. There are the WIS Wimps and the GDS Grasshoppers, just to name a few. Try those to combat your pigskinophobia. This place never ceases to amaze me.

Way to dispel the myth of football culture as bullying and arrogant! Nice one, PP. (From a former college varsity athlete with 3 kids currently playing varisty sports at the college and HS levels.)

[Anonymous]

Some co-ed independent schools without football:

GDS
St. Andrews
WIS
Edmund Burke
Sandy Spring Friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burke, Field, GDS, Maret, WIS all come to mind. But even at schools like Sidwell football is not even close to affecting the culture of the school.

Actually, Sidwell's football culture factored into my daughter's decision to go to GDS. The day we visited, the football team was parading around in their jersey's, and when we asked the tour guide what kids did for fun, she said they went to football games. There's nothing wrong with football, but some kids prefer a school where the social life doesn't revolve around spectator sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Burke, Field, GDS, Maret, WIS all come to mind. But even at schools like Sidwell football is not even close to affecting the culture of the school.

Actually, Sidwell's football culture factored into my daughter's decision to go to GDS. The day we visited, the football team was parading around in their jersey's, and when we asked the tour guide what kids did for fun, she said they went to football games. There's nothing wrong with football, but some kids prefer a school where the social life doesn't revolve around spectator sports.

FWIW, attendance at Arts Guild is much higher than attendance at football games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this right. You want your kid to have a high school experience that does not include football, not just that you don't want him to play, you don't even want the school to have a team, correct? Fortunately for you, there are a plethora of choices for such a cloistered non-contact existence. There are the WIS Wimps and the GDS Grasshoppers, just to name a few. Try those to combat your pigskinophobia. This place never ceases to amaze me.

Funny as this is, it should be pointed out that WIS kids would likely kick your kids' behind in soccer and tennis--sports that are infinitely more popular in the rest of the world--while effortlessly speaking 3-4 languages apiece. But do enjoy your Washington Rednecks games!

and the last time that WIS was ranked for soccer in the Washington Post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell does have football

Whoosh!

lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this right. You want your kid to have a high school experience that does not include football, not just that you don't want him to play, you don't even want the school to have a team, correct? Fortunately for you, there are a plethora of choices for such a cloistered non-contact existence. There are the WIS Wimps and the GDS Grasshoppers, just to name a few. Try those to combat your pigskinophobia. This place never ceases to amaze me.

After reading this post I think I'd rather my kids be with those wimps and grasshoppers...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Burke, Field, GDS, Maret, WIS all come to mind. But even at schools like Sidwell football is not even close to affecting the culture of the school.

Actually, Sidwell's football culture factored into my daughter's decision to go to GDS. The day we visited, the football team was parading around in their jersey's, and when we asked the tour guide what kids did for fun, she said they went to football games. There's nothing wrong with football, but some kids prefer a school where the social life doesn't revolve around spectator sports.

Were they actually having a parade, or were they wearing their game day jerseys to school, a pretty common practice for many sports at many schools?