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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can J-R take this crew opportunity away from SWW kids all of a sudden? Our daughter was counting on going to SWW and starting on the J-R crew team after training all year.

[quote=Anonymous]This has been one of my big disappointments with Walls. We knew there wasn't much of a Walls campus, but it is crazy that the swim team commutes to Dunbar for practice everyday when GW has a pool. J-R is pulling up the ladder on having Walls students row on their crew team because of changes in how regattas are defining schools and school districts. So that opportunity is going away. Having a place for graduation is nice, but  the sports stuff affects kids day-in and day-out.[/quote][/quote]

Your child can row year around at TBC. Many kids on other high school teams do it for summer and fall at a minimum.  While JR has allowed the Walls kids on their team there were always questions as to why that was allowed.  The crackdown on teams doing that is a good thing.  TBC is great and your child will be just fine. [/quote]

J-R is the only DCPS high school with a crew program - why can't kids who attend other DCPS schools participate? It's not as if those kids are freeloading; they have been part of the team, they have put in the blood, sweat and tears, they have PAID THE SAME FEES. But they attend schools that are much smaller and lack the resources (those boats cost upwards of $60K) to create their own programs. This is not MoCo, where there are multiple large high schools that can each field its own team. This was a really crappy move by the J-R parents who run the crew program. [/quote]
Dude, read the previous posts. The regional and national crew associations have recently changed their rules to prevent high school teams from building all-star teams comprised of rowers from multiple high schools. So it is a rule change, not "crappy" parents, who are responsible. In general, please make at least a minimal effort to understand a situation before attacking other people.[/quote]

I commend these parents for working so hard to maintain this club team.  But they also do it so their kids can actually race.  The rules now say they can’t race with kids from other high schools.  Crew is a really expensive sport, it just will not, nor should it, be supported with DCPS funds.  So only a big school can maintain a team.[/quote]

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