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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For as long as we’ve known JR Crew took on any DCPS student willing to put the work in. It’s a late and sudden change that puts kids who opted out of private for SWW in a place of having to decide school vs sport when other years didn’t have to choose.

It just seems that they should have said something before school decisions.

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[b]If crew is a priority, then pick JR as many kids do.  We all have to make choices…the JR crew team receives exactly $0 from the school or DCPS.  It is a club sport, not a DCPS sport[/b].[/quote]

This.  Really unclear to me why families think that their child should have ALL the opportunities.  Do your research.  J-R crew is a club, not a school sport.  If you want your child to have access to this club they have to be enrolled at J-R.  [/quote][/quote]

SWW was never, nor should it be viewed as a [b]"free" private school[/b].  Nobody should attend SWW thinking they will have access to a nationally-ranked sports team unless the school itself creates it.  You go to SWW to play on a varsity sport (with few if any cuts made on the teams), but any SWW-recruited athlete gets offers for what they do outside of SWW (on a club/travel team).

You could have attended NCS/STA (or Gonzaga) and known you would be joining a nationally-ranked crew program as well.  The parent volunteer board members of a DCPS club sports team have no responsibility to generally inform the public of changes that are outside their control as to how regatta teams are qualified.[/quote]

This is what a lot seem to think along with not realizing that it's a Humanities based school. A little research and you understand what you're getting.[/quote]

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