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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids we know don't want to go to a school without sports and its literally the deciding factor. They should be opening with freshman/JV sports. [/quote]

I don’t know if you can have freshman and JV VHSL teams without a varsity team. They want to have VHSL sports in the second year but they cannot have any VHSL sports and allow kids to play other ones at a different school. It is all or nothing.[/quote]

What's the issue with just having freshman and JV teams, and no Varsity, for the first year? Very few 9th-10th graders even make Varsity. If kids want to play on Varsity, they could not go to Western. But kids choosing to go should have the option of sports at school.[/quote]

It is a VHSL rule and there are sophomores that could play varsity so not being able to go to the other school for sports would be problematic for the few students who could be impacted. I don’t pretend to understand the way VHSL runs but it is something that they looked at. I know this was mentioned a bunch in the three different sessions I attended last week. The answer was consistently that they tried to work out situations to allow some sports at Western and allow other sports inclusion at different schools and that was a hard no. They are pushing for full sports at the school in the second year but acknowledge that might not be possible until the third year.

DS plays rec sports and is not interested in HS sports so this is not a factor for him. I know it is for others.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure that freshman may also play varsity.  Unlikely in some sports, but not all.

And, there are parents of middle school kids who think their child is such a good athlete that he/she will definitely be on varsity as a freshman.  They are usually very disappointed--and angry about it, on occasion.[/quote]

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