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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh.  Worrying about comparative facilities and all is nice.  But there are two huge things they need to do first, or all the rest is useless.

— Improve sports development *before* high school.

— Segment Deal’s and Wilson’s teams by academy or whatever to allow those schools to have more teams with a more reasonable level of competitiveness.

Consider, for example, middle school baseball.  Deal plays other DCPS middle schools and hasn’t lost a game in eons.  Some teams get trounced.  There is no good excuse for DCPS schools  to fhave weak teams when DC has a relatively huge investment in baseball fields across the city.  Meanwhile, at Deal, even players who are strong in Little League sit on the bench because the Deal pool is sooooo vast.

Facility adjustments won’t help those problems.[/quote]

You're accepting the premise that being better at competitive sports is even important to do. They should be talking about creating more opportunities for all kids and all kinds of sports. In particular, when people say "competitive sports," they're talking boys' sports. [/quote]

PP here, and I agree with you that the goal should be good sports development for all kids, or at least all who want it.  It should encompass competitive team sports, but should be broader than that.

Your comment made me wonder what the motivation for the “nationally recognized” competitive sports project is.  Is it about what’s good for students, or about PR for DC?[/quote]

This has the stench about it of catering to the fantasies of middle-aged men. [/quote]

It definitely has a stench. [/quote]

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