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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher here in MCPS and a big fan of HS sports I thought maybe we could have a thread here dedicated to the upcoming year's HS athletics here in MCPS.  Judging by a lot of the posts I read here, this thread will likely go untouched and buried but maybe there are a few of us who want to talk about whats happening in the county athletically.

First big news: Baba Oladotun, the country's #1 HS basketball player for the Class of 2027, is officially reclassifying up to the Class of 2026 and will remain at Blake HS for his third and final year before graduating early.  This is big news as there was a ton of speculation that he would be transferring to the newly opened St James Academy down in Springfield, VA.  What's also big is that MCPS typically doesn't see a lot of kids reclassify for athletics.  If you weren't planning on going before, you might want to make sure you get a chance to see a Blake HS basketball game this winter.[/quote]

Don’t most elite athletes reclass down instead of up?[/quote]

No.  The truly elite ones almost always reclass up to jumpstart their pro eligibility windows.  A player like Baba can add 10s if not 100s of millions to his eventual net worth by starting that window earlier[/quote]

How does a student reclassify their graduation year? Is this only available to atheletes? If so why?[/quote]

Any student can graduate early. [b]MCPS[/b] only requires 21 total high school credits (four of math and four of English). So it is very easy to get ahead by just taking a class or two in the summer.

Students are NOT allowed to reclassify down a year (to voluntarily extend their high school years to graduate a year later) in MCPS though.[/quote]
The state of Maryland [/quote]

This is true.  My 10th grader went to talk to the counselor about graduating early (unbeknownst to me).  Apparently, the counselor was quite supportive and gave her a specific roadmap for it (in terms of what classes needed to be done junior year or in summer) which really irritated me.  Of course, I'd have to sign off (and didn't).  But the kid viewed my position as unreasonable since the counselor made it sound like a good idea.  I don't know why the counselor reacted to her request so positively!

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