Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids

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Anonymous wrote:Can e get back to discussing Skyview and sports try outs? Please and Thank you

Sorry, who died and made you the Thread Queen?

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm a soccer coach choosing from 130 boys, am I going to (1) pick any kids who have to be transported from another school and back, or (2) am I going to pick the kids who go to my school, who came to the off season workouts, and are already there ready to go for practices and games?

Hint, the answer is (2). Now, it may not matter so much with no cut or girls sports, but any little negative will swing the pendulum against you when a coach is choosing from a crowd.

oh please nowhere has 130 boys trying out for one sport. that's ridiculous.

Yes, they do. Heck, Carson has around 130 kids try out for Mathcounts, it is easy to see a large number of kids trying out for a sport.

Seriously!? That's kind of hilarious. I don't know anything about it, but is there some reason that a math club can't have everyone participate?

The competition team sizes are quite small and shrink as you go to higher level comps.

Also the fact that 130 kids try out shows why parents are nervous about the competativeness of teams so their kids look good for college.

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Anonymous wrote:It is bias. Coaches have biases.

You would know the kid wasn't at your school because he would be late for all your immediately-after-school activities, and you would get a list at tryouts of all the students grades and schools because they have to register ahead of time.

Not the same in every sport, every kid. I am not worried at all about my kid making the team next year.

Sure some sports are no cut, and girls sports are easy to make.

That's not true at all. Girls sports are very competitive in Fairfax County.

They are incredibly easy to make compared to boys sports.

#boymom amirite?

DP and girl dad. Boys sports easily have twice the number of kids trying to make the team as girls sports, so yes the girls sports are much easier to make the cut. If you can't see and admit this reality due to your ego or some other reason, then there is no logical way to reach you.

I think there is a difference between "girl sports are easy to make" and "girl sports are EASIER to make". If you can't see and admit this reality due to your ego or some other reason, then there is no logical way to reach you.

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm a soccer coach choosing from 130 boys, am I going to (1) pick any kids who have to be transported from another school and back, or (2) am I going to pick the kids who go to my school, who came to the off season workouts, and are already there ready to go for practices and games?

Hint, the answer is (2). Now, it may not matter so much with no cut or girls sports, but any little negative will swing the pendulum against you when a coach is choosing from a crowd.

oh please nowhere has 130 boys trying out for one sport. that's ridiculous.

Yes, they do. Heck, Carson has around 130 kids try out for Mathcounts, it is easy to see a large number of kids trying out for a sport.

Seriously!? That's kind of hilarious. I don't know anything about it, but is there some reason that a math club can't have everyone participate?

You know that people could say the exact same thing about any given sport, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Can e get back to discussing Skyview and sports try outs? Please and Thank you

Sorry, who died and made you the Thread Queen?

I started the thred and it clearly reads “Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids” not “Random conversation about kids trying out for sports”

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm a soccer coach choosing from 130 boys, am I going to (1) pick any kids who have to be transported from another school and back, or (2) am I going to pick the kids who go to my school, who came to the off season workouts, and are already there ready to go for practices and games?

Hint, the answer is (2). Now, it may not matter so much with no cut or girls sports, but any little negative will swing the pendulum against you when a coach is choosing from a crowd.

oh please nowhere has 130 boys trying out for one sport. that's ridiculous.

Yes, they do. Heck, Carson has around 130 kids try out for Mathcounts, it is easy to see a large number of kids trying out for a sport.

Seriously!? That's kind of hilarious. I don't know anything about it, but is there some reason that a math club can't have everyone participate?

The room the club uses can hold 30 kids, I believe. The team of 4 is drawn from the 30 who make the team. The club is run by parent volunteers who probably don’t want to work with 130 kids. The volunteers teach skills to kids and run practice tests that they use to determine who makes the team of 4 and then the 6 other kids who will participate in Chapter as individuals. They offer other math competitions for the kids to participate in but you are still talking about teams of 4-5 kids. It is just how math competitions work.

The mathcounts program limits the teams to one per school and limits the number of kids per team. When my child was at carson nearly 200 kids tried out for mathcounts. They also had a similar number participate in AMC 8.
https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/competition-rules-faq

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It seems relevant to note that it’s going to be easier for kids at ALL the western high schools affected by the upcoming boundary changes to make sports teams once Skyview is fully up and running, and not just an opt-in school that isn’t yet offering what a normal school offers.

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It is an opt in school. Any kid can choose to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Can e get back to discussing Skyview and sports try outs? Please and Thank you

Sorry, who died and made you the Thread Queen?

I started the thred and it clearly reads “Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids” not “Random conversation about kids trying out for sports”

Starting the thread doesn't make you dictator of the conversation. Skyview parents and kids should be aware that there might be a bias against them when trying out for their base school sport.

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Anonymous wrote:Can e get back to discussing Skyview and sports try outs? Please and Thank you

Sorry, who died and made you the Thread Queen?

I started the thred and it clearly reads “Skyview Information for Families of Attending Kids” not “Random conversation about kids trying out for sports”

Starting the thread doesn't make you dictator of the conversation. Skyview parents and kids should be aware that there might be a bias against them when trying out for their base school sport.

They are aware, it has been discussed in many topics. That conversation is different then discussing numbers of kids trying out for sports.

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Anonymous wrote:It is an opt in school. Any kid can choose to go.

For year one, but not thereafter, absent a change in what's planned for Skyview.

As PP said, a kid attending Skyview expecting to play on another school's sports teams in 2026-27 is going to face some obstacles, although it would seem to come down to how much they want to play and how good an athlete they are. I don't see coaches at other schools really turning up their noses at them if they are good enough at their sport.

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How are they getting to their home school by 3:15 for practice?

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by FCPS bus each day, it could be a cluster!

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Anonymous wrote:How are they getting to their home school by 3:15 for practice?

I've heard students will be dismissed early in order to be at their base school.

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I can imagine nearby schools' swim and dive teams would use the indoor pool at Skyview for practice. So that would be a most convenient sport for Skyview students to join.