Transferring Public Schools - Boys Basketball - Is it worth it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can report it to the VHSL

Yes. Transferring for sports in against VHSL rules! There are academic waivers however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:if they are transferring kids into your child's public school in VA for athletics and they don't live within the boundaries of that school you should notify VIAA. It is not allowed!!!!

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1189358.page

They aren't transferring for athletics. They are transferring to Madison to take "sign language" which isn't offered at their in bound school. Oh, and surprise, they just happened to try out for the basketball team and made the team! Wow, varsity!

This couldn't be more of a bald faced lie. Madison boys varsity basketball team had zero transfers on their roster. In fact, their two most talented returning players transferred out to private schools. The girls team did have one player transfer in during the season from a private school, but Madison was her base school, therefore she was allowed to play immediately. Madison does not even offer sign language as a class. Madison basketball is a very competitive program and the teams are difficult to make, for sure. But please don't just fire off some random crap that has zero basis in reality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if they are transferring kids into your child's public school in VA for athletics and they don't live within the boundaries of that school you should notify VIAA. It is not allowed!!!!

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1189358.page

They aren't transferring for athletics. They are transferring to Madison to take "sign language" which isn't offered at their in bound school. Oh, and surprise, they just happened to try out for the basketball team and made the team! Wow, varsity!

This couldn't be more of a bald faced lie. Madison boys varsity basketball team had zero transfers on their roster. In fact, their two most talented returning players transferred out to private schools. The girls team did have one player transfer in during the season from a private school, but Madison was her base school, therefore she was allowed to play immediately. Madison does not even offer sign language as a class. Madison basketball is a very competitive program and the teams are difficult to make, for sure. But please don't just fire off some random crap that has zero basis in reality.

Dude, chill out. It was an example. Replace "Madison" with any other FCPS high school and "sign language' with any other obscure course and you have the answer as to how basketball coaches recruit players at public schools.

[Anonymous]

I’m not upset. I just don’t think it’s right to slander a coach or a program by accusing them of cheating or working around the rules. They didn’t say any FCPS school, they said Madison does this. When, in fact, they don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't transfer to my kid's school, please, its hard enough to get spots on the basketball teams with all the kids the coaches mysteriously transfer in from nearby schools.

+1. There's 3000 kids at a school and three of the varsity starters mysteriously transfer from other public high schools. Coaches should have to select their teams from the kids in boundary for that school.

Transfer on what basis? Can coaches do this for basketball reasons? Or is it done by a supposed school-related work-around (e.g., kid moves to new HS to allegedly take a foreign language his old HS doesn't offer)?

Mom & Dad having some troubles so separating for a while - and Dad just happens to have apartment in “X” school district… so son going to live there for stability reasons…

Hopefully Mom & Dad reconcile right after playoff season…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not upset. I just don’t think it’s right to slander a coach or a program by accusing them of cheating or working around the rules. They didn’t say any FCPS school, they said Madison does this. When, in fact, they don’t.

Uh, Madison basketball did have a player transfer in from Paul VI. Perhaps innocent enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't transfer to my kid's school, please, its hard enough to get spots on the basketball teams with all the kids the coaches mysteriously transfer in from nearby schools.

+1. There's 3000 kids at a school and three of the varsity starters mysteriously transfer from other public high schools. Coaches should have to select their teams from the kids in boundary for that school.

Transfer on what basis? Can coaches do this for basketball reasons? Or is it done by a supposed school-related work-around (e.g., kid moves to new HS to allegedly take a foreign language his old HS doesn't offer)?

This. You see it all the time now and it's really concerning. The time of going to school where you live is over (if you want it to be).

I know a kid who transferred from a NOVA public school to one in Richmond just for basketball (goes back and forth on weekends). It blows my mind. I thought AAU was the real way to get recruited to division I schools.

[Anonymous]

We just had 3 top basketball stars transfer out of FCPS HS to play for a private Catholic school in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just had 3 top basketball stars transfer out of FCPS HS to play for a private Catholic school in Arlington.

The same FCPS HS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't transfer to my kid's school, please, its hard enough to get spots on the basketball teams with all the kids the coaches mysteriously transfer in from nearby schools.

+1. There's 3000 kids at a school and three of the varsity starters mysteriously transfer from other public high schools. Coaches should have to select their teams from the kids in boundary for that school.

Transfer on what basis? Can coaches do this for basketball reasons? Or is it done by a supposed school-related work-around (e.g., kid moves to new HS to allegedly take a foreign language his old HS doesn't offer)?

This. You see it all the time now and it's really concerning. The time of going to school where you live is over (if you want it to be).

I know a kid who transferred from a NOVA public school to one in Richmond just for basketball (goes back and forth on weekends). It blows my mind. I thought AAU was the real way to get recruited to division I schools.

I bet its John Marshall. Its basically a basketball recruiting factory masquerading as a school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just had 3 top basketball stars transfer out of FCPS HS to play for a private Catholic school in Arlington.

The same FCPS HS?

Two from the same FCPS HS and one from Alexandria. IDK about a third FCPS player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Lakes

It’s definitely done at South Lakes and Westfields.

[Anonymous]

Talk to the coach. Let him know your son will likely be transferred to your target schools and make sure he has a plan for your kid before you make the move. Do the same thing with private schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:South Lakes

It’s definitely done at South Lakes and Westfields.

My kid's a freshman at Westfields. What's done there?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the regular Hayfield team is going to be taken over by players from their sus pwc/stafford/dc/md All Star football team? 30+ transfers, surely some play basketball as well.