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[quote=Anonymous]Not so fast.
Thread OP here. I would never let my kids play football either. The dads at my NW EOTP IB DCPS (NEID?) bond with their sons playing soccer right next to school, and my kids adore swimming. My EOTP IB DCPS does not have a marching band, but they do have a string instruments program, and drama club, and ballet, and stunning facilities, minus a couple of budgeted improvements that got yanked before completion.

I have to say, after reading pages and pages of responses, I'm still, or even a bit more, confident in my IB EOTP language immersion DCPS. What WOTP DCPS schools have, we can have too, minus a little bit of bullshit, a block from home.

[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][/quote]

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