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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 "free" private school.  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]

Why shouldn’t loving and responsible parents want their children to “have ALL the opportunities”? What’s wrong with wanting and striving for the best for your children?

Some of you have very low expectations…and you’ll get what you accept.[/quote]

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