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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That can't be accurate...Eastern and Ballou have the largest marching bands in the city.  Woodson and Eastern have the best athletic participation in the city...so if the wealthier kids are getting better opportunities then they are not producing winning results.  If the poor kids at Ballou, Eastern, Woodson and Dunbar are participating in activities that the rich kids are not doing....guess who's winning.[/quote]

drumlines and football.

Some schools undoubtedly "win" that contest, agree.

The mothers in my parent circle discuss with each other the fact that we will not allow our elementary-and-MS-aged sons to play football, ever.

Once the "flag football" preschool stuff is over, then football is over for life,  No matter how much Madden NFL xBox they play, or how much NFL-lust they discuss with Dad as a bonding moment, no matter how much they beg (and they do, when they're about 8-10 and they're so sure they will play NFL someday) .... moms like me do not sign up our sons for football.  We don't write the check for Pop Warner or whatever that league is.  We don't research tackle football skills summer camps at UMD or deMatha.

So that's a difference between parents who live WoTP and many parent whose sons grow up IB for Eastern, Dunbar and so on.  But, the difference is not created by DCPS.  It's a difference of parenting philosophy.[/quote]

Off topic, but my otherwise intellectual father has talked his whole life about how his mom wouldn't let him play football in high school.  His resentment about it went deep, deep.  I'll have to ask him about it now that research shows she was absolutely right in this.[/quote]

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