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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So weird to me that Walls parents seem to feel entitled to have their kids participate in a club run by parents at a different school, particularly given the nasty things we heard from Walls parents when our kid turned down a Walls spot to play their sport at JR (basically variation on  “How could you choose to let your kid go to school with ‘those people’?”). [/quote]

So weird, right? So weird when you consider that these are all DCPS kids. And about 20 percent of the JR Team this year are Walls kids. And Walls kids have been part of the team for years. And the Walls parents volunteer, alongside the JR parents, to run the program. And the Walls parents pay the same fees to support the program. So weird, the nerve and audacity of those weird Walls families.[/quote]
I’m not sure why you think paying dues a and volunteering somehow changes things.  If Walls kids have been participating, of course they would do those things.  That’s part of what’s meant by “participating.”

Honestly, it sounds like JR has been trying to be inclusive and give more kids an opportunity to row, and now that’s no longer possible.  I feel bad for the Walls kids, but I have to admit I feel a lot of disdain for the parents whose kids aren’t yet even at Walls yet blaming JR parents, as several posts on this thread hace done. The entitlement reflected by blaming parents from a school your kid doesn’t attend for a decision made by the athletic association is mind blowing to me. And honestly some of these parents (“we would have chosen private if we’d known”) sound like the Walls parents who said a lot of negative and frankly racist things to my kid about their decision to attend JR after being admitted to Walls. [/quote]

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