Shame on Arlington County HS Volleyball Coaches

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS volleyball is a joke for recruiting. Focus on club. That’s where recruiting happens.

Precisely the point and why an eighth grade club volleyball player should stick with club and allow kids who want to play for their high school that they actually attend- play. And this isn’t just about volleyball it’s all the sports. You have kids doubling and tripling up on club, rec, high school teams … while others are never even given a chance to play.

wasn’t there a movement to not allow ECNL soccer players to play high school sports?

Exactly this. There is no need for 8th grade players to take a team spot away from a sophomore/junior at their enrolled school along with the opportunity to play for their enrolled school. For what? It doesn’t matter for recruiting. It doesn’t matter for much of anything except deny a high school student the pride and opportunity of playing for their school on their team with their peers. Those 8th graders will play club anyway and probably will go off to visitation or GDS.

Wish coaches had more sense.

[Anonymous]

If I were the parent of these girls, I'd file an immediate complaint. This is so wrong and goes against the entire spirit of "equity"--something liberals are very good at screaming but not putting in practice. This system reeks of elitism

[Anonymous]

Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP raises a good point. In APS, high schools are also required to tryout students from the “option schools” like HB Woodlawn, Arlington Tech. (at least those are legit HS students).

So… then a sophomore HS volleyball player at Yorktown for example has to compete for a smaller number of spots to begin with (freshman volleyball team is off the table) against freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, 8th graders, and students from the option schools. For essentially 26 spots between JV/Varsity. Factor in coach biases, club preferences (of course coaches are going to push kids from their own clubs), politics, seniority, connections and favoritism, and it becomes nearly impossible for a sophomore to play JV at their own school.

And yes the coaches deserve the heat. They aren’t required to take 8th graders who may not even play on the team the next year.

What a crappy policy.

Coaches have to pick the most qualified player for the team, regardless of how they feel about the policy. The school and/or the coach can be sued for not following the guidelines.

You are an idjit. This argument is ridiculous. No one would prevail in such a lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

Elitist! There are plenty of rules that are disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

Elitist! There are plenty of rules that are disgusting.

As disgusting as these rules are, they are still rules. Vote to change the rules if you don’t like them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were the parent of these girls, I'd file an immediate complaint. This is so wrong and goes against the entire spirit of "equity"--something liberals are very good at screaming but not putting in practice. This system reeks of elitism

Apparently this rule has been on the book since at least 2015 when I looked into it for my MS kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

Elitist! There are plenty of rules that are disgusting.

As disgusting as these rules are, they are still rules. Vote to change the rules if you don’t like them.

Can you stop repeating yourself? There are a lot of rules that need to be updated or changed. Just because it's a rule, it doesn't mean it's "right", you twit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

Elitist! There are plenty of rules that are disgusting.

As disgusting as these rules are, they are still rules. Vote to change the rules if you don’t like them.

Can you stop repeating yourself? There are a lot of rules that need to be updated or changed. Just because it's a rule, it doesn't mean it's "right", you twit.

Who can change these rules? Certainly not the coaches.

[Anonymous]

The shorter kids should try aging down to the middle school teams and wait for the screaming to start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. shame on them for following the rules as stipulated.

Don't like the rules. Talk to the APS School Board. Otherwise, I'm sorry our daughter wasn't good enough. That is life.

Elitist! There are plenty of rules that are disgusting.

As disgusting as these rules are, they are still rules. Vote to change the rules if you don’t like them.

Can you stop repeating yourself? There are a lot of rules that need to be updated or changed. Just because it's a rule, it doesn't mean it's "right", you twit.

Who can change these rules? Certainly not the coaches.

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

This is the result of of an obsession with sports so intense that parents are drugging their 9 year olds because they can’t sleep after getting home at 9:30pm after late sports practices.

[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.

Please. No one is pointing a gun to the school's head saying they MUST take 8 graders.