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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For every kid they kick back to their home school they can take another freshman from the IB waitlist. Expand the boundaries. Fill up the school. I don’t care. But stop this ruse that we are somehow creating an IB pathway when one MS offers it and there aren’t 100 spots at TJ for transfers. [/quote]

All of the options and MS pathways/focus are a waste of resources.

They should just focus on strong fundamentals in elem and middle school, with an honors option in middle school (they just started this).

Kids can explore IB AP dance in high school where it’s universally available.

I would even get rid of middle school sports — it’s limited capacity so ends up just for kids who played travel since they were 6. No need to support their athletic career, their parents have already invested heavily. I think lots of intramurals and athletics during the day would be better for getting all students fit. [/quote]

Can you run for school board?[/quote]

I was with you til the sports.  Why doesn’t your argument apply to high school?   I see tons of kids at the basketball games, for example.  It’s fun for more than just the players.  Plus, I don’t see how athletics is any less valuable than all the other afterschool activities that are offered (and any of which are limited by space, eg, maker space). [/quote]

I know my limits.  Cutting high school sports and the pathways to college that provides is a non-starter, know your audience.

Only athletics have literal cut sports -- every other after school sport etc simply expands participation and shares resources (so in your example maybe they will get the maker space only once a week rather than three times a week).  Middle school sports cuts people for ability, when most ability has been goosed by parents paying for travel/training for years.  If you read again, I did say athletics was important, but I recommend a more inclusive implementation that benefits more students and promotes fitness for the entire student body not just those whose parents had foresight to pay for travel basketball and tennis lessons. [/quote].

If it makes you feel any better, there’s no middle school baseball teams.  And I would fully support more intramural teams but the reality is that the “cuts” are usually due to predominately space issues.  For example, WMS uses YHS tennis courts (and I think they’re like ten of them?) so WMS has a huge tennis team.  So does Jefferson, also tons of courts.  Hamm, not so much, they have two courts.  Ultimate Frisbee is usually no cut, but so many kids sign up that is basically a one day a week after school club (because they have to rotate who gets to use the fields) rather than a team sport.  Basketball is probably the hardest because cuts are real but remember that the season is super, super short — like six weeks — because the “winter” is split between the girls season and the boys season, since only one team has the gym.  Bottom line: you can increase access to sports in APS with only if you can increase space. And no one is biting on that. [/quote]

Middle school soccer makes brutal cuts.[/quote]

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