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Anonymous wrote:I'm coaching rec basketball so I get the spreadsheet with all the kids and their "special requests." You aren't supposed to request specific teams or pairings because it makes it hard for us coaches to draft fair, equal teams. About 2/3 of Crossfield families ignore that and put in requests to only be on a team with other Crossfield girls, or with specific girls. Every other school got the message and maybe only 10% of them put in those kids of comments.
FYI, we will not be honoring their requests. Kids get drafted wherever they end up based on evaluations. We also keep evaluations from the end of last year so we can tell when you instruct your kid to tank during tryouts to be picked up in a later round and get a better team. If you want that kind of competition play county or AAU. Rec is not the place for that.
Sorry to ramble, but that goes to show how out of whack the sports bias is for Crossfield compared to other schools in the area.

My kids play CYA rec basketball and ALL the teams are like this. Every year, several of the teams have the same core group of kids. Usually coach, assistant coach, and a couple of their friends that get drafted first. It's not just one school.

Obviously the coach and assistant coach will have their kids on their teams. At least we grade the kids and make them take their own kids in the round they would have been picked. I'm telling you my CYA spreadsheet has 12/20 Crossfield kids with special requests to be on other Crossfield kids' teams, while no other school has more than 2 special requests except Poplar Tree at 6/21 kids having those requests.

This is a lot of private, specific, identifiable information you are posting online to a widely read public message board about other people's minor children.

Surely that information is confidential.

You should not be a coach if you are so loose with the information of children in your league.

None of the PP's here. But, that is not personal information under any circumstances.

Must be a Crossfield parent upset at being called out. That was all statistics, none of it "private, specific, or identifiable." Just hysterics in a feeble attempt to gain the moral high ground.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm coaching rec basketball so I get the spreadsheet with all the kids and their "special requests." You aren't supposed to request specific teams or pairings because it makes it hard for us coaches to draft fair, equal teams. About 2/3 of Crossfield families ignore that and put in requests to only be on a team with other Crossfield girls, or with specific girls. Every other school got the message and maybe only 10% of them put in those kids of comments.
FYI, we will not be honoring their requests. Kids get drafted wherever they end up based on evaluations. We also keep evaluations from the end of last year so we can tell when you instruct your kid to tank during tryouts to be picked up in a later round and get a better team. If you want that kind of competition play county or AAU. Rec is not the place for that.
Sorry to ramble, but that goes to show how out of whack the sports bias is for Crossfield compared to other schools in the area.

My kids play CYA rec basketball and ALL the teams are like this. Every year, several of the teams have the same core group of kids. Usually coach, assistant coach, and a couple of their friends that get drafted first. It's not just one school.

Obviously the coach and assistant coach will have their kids on their teams. At least we grade the kids and make them take their own kids in the round they would have been picked. I'm telling you my CYA spreadsheet has 12/20 Crossfield kids with special requests to be on other Crossfield kids' teams, while no other school has more than 2 special requests except Poplar Tree at 6/21 kids having those requests.

This is a lot of private, specific, identifiable information you are posting online to a widely read public message board about other people's minor children.

Surely that information is confidential.

You should not be a coach if you are so loose with the information of children in your league.

None of the PP's here. But, that is not personal information under any circumstances.

Must be a Crossfield parent upset at being called out. That was all statistics, none of it "private, specific, or identifiable." Just hysterics in a feeble attempt to gain the moral high ground.

This. If there were only one Crossfield player on any of the teams, it would be personal. From the explanation given, it is far from personal information.
Irony, some parents may not want their kids together and does not know they are being set up. Like the parent who always wants someone else to drive.

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain all the hate for Crossfield here? I'd never heard of this school up until this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain all the hate for Crossfield here? I'd never heard of this school up until this year!

Crossfield is an elementary school in Herndon that pulls from Herndon and Reston neighborhoods. At the middle school level, most of Crossfield goes to Carson, but other Crossfield kids go to Hughes and Franklin. At the high school level, the Crossfield/Carson kids go to Oakton, the Crossfield/Hughes kids go to South Lakes, and the Crossfield/Franklin kids go to Chantilly.

Crossfield is fairly close to South Lakes, a fair distance to Chantilly, and quite a distance to Oakton. No kids now at Oakton commute further to Oakton than the Crossfield kids. With the opening of the new Western high school, there is some possibility - although by no means guaranteed - that some or all of Crossfield would be reassigned to the new HS.

The "hate" for Crossfield is directed primarily towards the Crossfield/Carson/Oakton families most adamant that they want to stay zoned to Oakton. It's directed towards these families because some are very outspoken about their belief that Oakton is "better" than some other schools and "better" than the new Western high school could ever aspire to be. That also gets under some people's kids because these parents act like their kids shouldn't have to slum it with the same Crossfield and/or Carson kids in high school that they were around in elementary or middle school.

Some of the outspoken parents are also very into youth sports, and suggest that their kids are potential D1 recruits and will see that jeopardized unless they can attend Oakton. They give the impression that they don't care what happens to other kids, and indeed some go out of their way to push for the reassignment of other kids to the new western HS so they can stay at Oakton.

To be clear, this is just a subset of Crossfield parents, and there are other Crossfield/Carson/Oakton parents who either don't care if they get reassigned to the new western HS or would welcome a move. But right now people are associating the entire school with the noisiest pro-Oakton parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain all the hate for Crossfield here? I'd never heard of this school up until this year!

Crossfield is an elementary school in Herndon that pulls from Herndon and Reston neighborhoods. At the middle school level, most of Crossfield goes to Carson, but other Crossfield kids go to Hughes and Franklin. At the high school level, the Crossfield/Carson kids go to Oakton, the Crossfield/Hughes kids go to South Lakes, and the Crossfield/Franklin kids go to Chantilly.

Crossfield is fairly close to South Lakes, a fair distance to Chantilly, and quite a distance to Oakton. No kids now at Oakton commute further to Oakton than the Crossfield kids. With the opening of the new Western high school, there is some possibility - although by no means guaranteed - that some or all of Crossfield would be reassigned to the new HS.

The "hate" for Crossfield is directed primarily towards the Crossfield/Carson/Oakton families most adamant that they want to stay zoned to Oakton. It's directed towards these families because some are very outspoken about their belief that Oakton is "better" than some other schools and "better" than the new Western high school could ever aspire to be. That also gets under some people's kids because these parents act like their kids shouldn't have to slum it with the same Crossfield and/or Carson kids in high school that they were around in elementary or middle school.

Some of the outspoken parents are also very into youth sports, and suggest that their kids are potential D1 recruits and will see that jeopardized unless they can attend Oakton. They give the impression that they don't care what happens to other kids, and indeed some go out of their way to push for the reassignment of other kids to the new western HS so they can stay at Oakton.

To be clear, this is just a subset of Crossfield parents, and there are other Crossfield/Carson/Oakton parents who either don't care if they get reassigned to the new western HS or would welcome a move. But right now people are associating the entire school with the noisiest pro-Oakton parents.

DP adding that one of the loudest is the Crossfield PTO president who is using that position to claim that their viewpoint is shared by the entire Crossfield community.

[Anonymous]

Agree with PP, all these negative comments come from nowhere and not necessary.

[Anonymous]

I suggest those crossfield families who do not agree with some other crossfield families, post your comments somewhere else or talk within your community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP, all these negative comments come from nowhere and not necessary.

Just because some of you Crossfield people suck all of the oxygen out of a room doesn’t mean you can read one.

[Anonymous]

18:13, what an impressive and even-handed synopsis! Well done.

Was not expecting that in this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP, all these negative comments come from nowhere and not necessary.

Just because some of you Crossfield people suck all of the oxygen out of a room doesn’t mean you can read one.

Excuse me. I am not from Crossfield.

[Anonymous]

We know Gatehouse reads DCUM so I think it's helpful as a Crossfield parent for them to know that we are not all part of this rooted in Oakton nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Why is Oakton a more desirable school? What makes it "better" than the others? Are the teachers better? Why no - there are good teachers everywhere. It's the SES that is higher, thus the scores are higher.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm coaching rec basketball so I get the spreadsheet with all the kids and their "special requests." You aren't supposed to request specific teams or pairings because it makes it hard for us coaches to draft fair, equal teams. About 2/3 of Crossfield families ignore that and put in requests to only be on a team with other Crossfield girls, or with specific girls. Every other school got the message and maybe only 10% of them put in those kids of comments.
FYI, we will not be honoring their requests. Kids get drafted wherever they end up based on evaluations. We also keep evaluations from the end of last year so we can tell when you instruct your kid to tank during tryouts to be picked up in a later round and get a better team. If you want that kind of competition play county or AAU. Rec is not the place for that.
Sorry to ramble, but that goes to show how out of whack the sports bias is for Crossfield compared to other schools in the area.

My kids play CYA rec basketball and ALL the teams are like this. Every year, several of the teams have the same core group of kids. Usually coach, assistant coach, and a couple of their friends that get drafted first. It's not just one school.

Obviously the coach and assistant coach will have their kids on their teams. At least we grade the kids and make them take their own kids in the round they would have been picked. I'm telling you my CYA spreadsheet has 12/20 Crossfield kids with special requests to be on other Crossfield kids' teams, while no other school has more than 2 special requests except Poplar Tree at 6/21 kids having those requests.

This is a lot of private, specific, identifiable information you are posting online to a widely read public message board about other people's minor children.

Surely that information is confidential.

You should not be a coach if you are so loose with the information of children in your league.

None of the PP's here. But, that is not personal information under any circumstances.

Sure it is.

Crossfield elementary
Girls basketball
CYA league
20 girls playing at that level
12 of the 20 girls have parents who the coach deams a pain in the a$$

It would be so easy for anyone at that school to narrow down which families the coach is conplaining about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP, all these negative comments come from nowhere and not necessary.

Conpletely agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm coaching rec basketball so I get the spreadsheet with all the kids and their "special requests." You aren't supposed to request specific teams or pairings because it makes it hard for us coaches to draft fair, equal teams. About 2/3 of Crossfield families ignore that and put in requests to only be on a team with other Crossfield girls, or with specific girls. Every other school got the message and maybe only 10% of them put in those kids of comments.
FYI, we will not be honoring their requests. Kids get drafted wherever they end up based on evaluations. We also keep evaluations from the end of last year so we can tell when you instruct your kid to tank during tryouts to be picked up in a later round and get a better team. If you want that kind of competition play county or AAU. Rec is not the place for that.
Sorry to ramble, but that goes to show how out of whack the sports bias is for Crossfield compared to other schools in the area.

My kids play CYA rec basketball and ALL the teams are like this. Every year, several of the teams have the same core group of kids. Usually coach, assistant coach, and a couple of their friends that get drafted first. It's not just one school.

Obviously the coach and assistant coach will have their kids on their teams. At least we grade the kids and make them take their own kids in the round they would have been picked. I'm telling you my CYA spreadsheet has 12/20 Crossfield kids with special requests to be on other Crossfield kids' teams, while no other school has more than 2 special requests except Poplar Tree at 6/21 kids having those requests.

This is a lot of private, specific, identifiable information you are posting online to a widely read public message board about other people's minor children.

Surely that information is confidential.

You should not be a coach if you are so loose with the information of children in your league.

None of the PP's here. But, that is not personal information under any circumstances.

Sure it is.

Crossfield elementary
Girls basketball
CYA league
20 girls playing at that level
12 of the 20 girls have parents who the coach deams a pain in the a$$

It would be so easy for anyone at that school to narrow down which families the coach is conplaining about.

Ok genius, what grade are the kids? What coach out of the 80 or so coaching rec basketball this year for CYA? Or is it one of their assistants?
You don't like the facts presented so you are trying to deflect. We all see through you, just stop.