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[quote=Anonymous]I sent two boys thru Janney and the anti Janney stuff that comes up on DCUM is frankly completely bonkers and disconnected from reality and largely I think driven by unhinged & insecure private school parents (or a singular parent) who bailed from DCPS at some point because of their personal insecurities and has a strange ax to grind.

Having said that there both of my kids played on the boys basketball team at Janney and there has long been a weird intensity/ego problem among the coaches and parents of the girls team that has been really puzzling but assuming they are from parents of the girls team a couple of the posts in this thread are consistent with the entire strange win at any costs/ the end justifies the means mentality.

There was a scrimmage last year between the boys and girls team at Janney that was just bizarre - one of the girls coaches was the ref and the calls were so lopsided in favor of the girls that the game more resembled a WWE event than a basketball game and then the ref started throwing the boys out of the game for saying anything about the calls - I'm not sure a single call went against the girls the entire game which is saying something because they were very physically aggressive.  This all spilled over into the classrooms the following two weeks because the girls were running their mouths about winning and the boys were extremely angry about the way the game had been played to the point where the boys coach had to spend the good part of a practice telling the boys that they had to be the bigger party and accept there was nothing to do and move on and that the coaches wouldn't tolerate any reports about the boys further arguing about the game.

Needless to say the 2nd scheduled scrimmage was cancelled so this particular team has issues getting along within their own school.[/quote]

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