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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know who planted this story with WaPo but kudos to the Walls baseball PR team.  The lack of access to a close baseball field for Walls - a school in an urban location where there is no nearby baseball field - really is not worthy of a newspaper article.  Really, I'd love to know who at WaPo greenlit this article???

Many DC high schools have significant variation in the extracurricular resources and offerings based on the size and makeup of the student body and the location of the school.  I know of several students who didn't pursue Walls because of their weak sports facilities - and this opens up spots for students who want to go to Walls for what it does offer (nerdy, academically focused kids).  Those students going to a larger school also have to navigate the burdens that go along with those resources (overcrowding, less individual attention).

Walls as a school would have been much better served by an article on how each year they have such serious staffing issues (such as no biology teacher one year) or the fact that their faculty basically refused to come into the building even after other schools were hybrid.[/quote]

Did you even read the article before jumping in here to pontificate? The article highlighted the baseball team but also brought up the challenges faced by all the Walls sports teams. 
Are you actually trying to say kids at Walls should have no sports? Guess what, they don’t have space in the building for a robotics team either. They do have a robotics team but it is hard for them to seriously compete with other schools because of lack of a dedicated space + equipment. And if you think Walls has staffing issues, come visit JR where my kid goes. Much more serious staffing issues there.[/quote]

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