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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Color me shocked. DCPS always holds its citywide athletic events at the least safe, least central locations. Our ES basketball team needed a police escort to walk from the school to the bus after a recent playoff game. It's a recipe for a lawsuit.[/quote]

That's where the DC State golf Championship match was held too.[/quote]

All the swim meets, all of the track meets, many of the baseball and softball games are in the far eastern corner or Anacostia.  I think it's a combo of where they build the nice facilities, what's convenient to DCIAA staff, and some weird desire to "stick it" to the west side of town.[/quote]

They also want to keep a lot of the bad stuff that happens on the margins of a lot of high school sports- by which I mean gambling and the kind of people who show up to gamble, or find the people that are gambling- away from the west side of town. I think there’s a slight smidgen of wanting to stick it to west of 16th, but a whole lot of “we can’t let those people that far across the river.” Maybe I’m just jaded by years of coaching youth football, but stuff gets really, really sketchy.[/quote]

Interesting.  I was not aware of meaningful gambling on HS sports.
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That's because it does not exist on a meaningful level, and it has exactly zero bearing on where DCPS holds its sporting events. Do people really think people are betting on elementary school track meets or high school baseball games that J-R always wins by mercy rule? Good lord.[/quote]

There are far fewer students attending DC public schools in Wards 1-3 (and 6) compared to Wards 4, 5, 7, and 8. https://edscape.dc.gov/page/pop-and-students-where-public-school-students-live?
Also, fewer actual schools https://edscape.dc.gov/node/1729531 . Not sure if that factors into it, but it makes sense to schedule the events closer to where more families live.

Yesterday's shooting is horrifying, and no child or family should ever have to go through that traumatic event. But the tone of this thread is getting a little off track. I have been to dozens of sports indoors and outside of middle schools, elementary schools and high schools in all wards, and while there may have been police or security at some games, I have never seen or needed teams getting escorts, or in any type of danger. 
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All cross country meets (ES, MS, and HS)    Ward 7 and PG County
All indoor track meets (ES, MS, and HS)      PG County
All outdoor track meets (ES, MS, and HS)    Ward 7
All MS swim meets (except championship)   Ward 7

DCIAA office    Ward 7[/quote]

Sometimes I am sure it is an issue of space that they are used to having available, etc. Also, the event yesterday is in Ward 5, and the cross country meets I have been at off of Bladensburg are also in/near Ward 5. If you look at a map it is actually pretty central if you have kids coming from all of the other wards.[/quote]

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