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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

It turns out if you have family money, you don't need brains to get into good colleges.

Sure that’s it 🙄. I think the Ivy League commits and current students that are playing football would disagree. Still very high academic standards to play football for Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and even Notre Dame and Stanford.

np: No question there are a fewer percentage of well-educated people interested in playing football than there used to be. Not sure why it is important to you to deny that.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

It turns out if you have family money, you don't need brains to get into good colleges.

Sure that’s it 🙄. I think the Ivy League commits and current students that are playing football would disagree. Still very high academic standards to play football for Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and even Notre Dame and Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

It turns out if you have family money, you don't need brains to get into good colleges.

Sure that’s it 🙄. I think the Ivy League commits and current students that are playing football would disagree. Still very high academic standards to play football for Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and even Notre Dame and Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

It turns out if you have family money, you don't need brains to get into good colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

The elite private schools say differently. Tons of wealthy, educated boys fill the football teams at Sidwell, STA, Maret, Landon etc. Even the middle school teams. I suspect it’s more so that it conflicts with soccer and in privates, kids know whether they have what it takes to compete on soccer team.

Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

Anonymous wrote:You can always leave the school and move to the burbs if you don't like it.

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Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

Yeah Deal no longer has a football team. I'm surprised parents are surprised about this at Hardy. It's a much smaller school, I can't imagine they had enough kids to safely play.

Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

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Anonymous wrote:The athletic director didn’t collect the health forms and then faked last years forms were this years forms. And sounds like he brought some kids from other schools to join the team.

They got rid of that athletic director but now it’s really sad the kids lose out and don’t have a season.

And not a good look for the new principal for not being more straightforward- they don’t need to share all the details but they should be more straight to earn trust of the students and parents.

NP. I got the email and it was plenty straightforward enough for me.

I agree. It's better not to hash out every detail in the email. What an unfortunate situation. I also feel bad for the players, but it seems more effort could have been made to recruit more kids. There was nothing in the newsletter mentioning that more kids were needed. Instead it is assumed for most sports that space is limited.

Not to mention it appeared to me the team was already formed before school even started, so no real opportunity for new students or 6th graders to participate. I find it hard to believe there aren’t additional children who could round out this team. I don’t have a dog in this fight, my child is on cross country, but that team alone turned away 30+ students. There seems to be the appetite for sports but a lack of ability to accommodate or slot kids into available sports.

DCIAA now has a rule that there can be only 20 kids per sport. That means that big schools like Hardy and Deal wind up cutting most of the people who try out. This is especially unfortunate in things like cross country where more runners don't affect the outcome.

You obviously didn’t attend the cross country meet last week. The ES races - with teams that hadn’t yet been cut down - lasted as long as it took for some kids to do a slow walk around the course. More runners may not affect the outcome but it does make the meets very difficult to manage.

Anonymous wrote:As the demographics of Hardy changes, it will get harder and harder to field a football team. Upper income families familiar with the medical science are not letting their kids take hits to the head and their bodies. Not when it can affect life and educational outcomes. This is probably why the coach had to specifically recruit kids from elsewhere.

RIP Hardy football.

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Anonymous wrote:The athletic director didn’t collect the health forms and then faked last years forms were this years forms. And sounds like he brought some kids from other schools to join the team.

They got rid of that athletic director but now it’s really sad the kids lose out and don’t have a season.

And not a good look for the new principal for not being more straightforward- they don’t need to share all the details but they should be more straight to earn trust of the students and parents.

NP. I got the email and it was plenty straightforward enough for me.

I agree. It's better not to hash out every detail in the email. What an unfortunate situation. I also feel bad for the players, but it seems more effort could have been made to recruit more kids. There was nothing in the newsletter mentioning that more kids were needed. Instead it is assumed for most sports that space is limited.

Not to mention it appeared to me the team was already formed before school even started, so no real opportunity for new students or 6th graders to participate. I find it hard to believe there aren’t additional children who could round out this team. I don’t have a dog in this fight, my child is on cross country, but that team alone turned away 30+ students. There seems to be the appetite for sports but a lack of ability to accommodate or slot kids into available sports.