Bumping to ask about basketball tryouts that started Friday. Anyone know how many kids tried out?

Anonymous wrote:Novice crew in 8th grade at Deal is great. Wilson’s crew team is getting competitive and their varsity boys 8 won the SRAA championship this year.

Limited spaces; fills up quick, so get on the Wilson email list (it is run through Wilson).

Anonymous wrote:What happened to fencing at Deal?

It is/was a club and needs a teacher sponsor.

What happened to fencing at Deal?

Novice crew in 8th grade at Deal is great. Wilson’s crew team is getting competitive and their varsity boys 8 won the SRAA championship this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Deal families could support redistricting so that fewer kids were IB for the school. If Lafayette and Coolidge went to Wells and Coolidge and Bancroft (and Oyster) went to MacFarland and Roosevelt, there would be more opportunity to play sports, along with many other advantages.

But people at these schools don't want to be redistricted to Wells. Go to a crappy school so your kid can make the team? No thanks.

How does a school that hasn't even opened get designated crappy?

NP. Don’t be obtuse. Based on performance of feeder schools. Would you like to be zoned there?

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Anonymous wrote:Deal families could support redistricting so that fewer kids were IB for the school. If Lafayette and Coolidge went to Wells and Coolidge and Bancroft (and Oyster) went to MacFarland and Roosevelt, there would be more opportunity to play sports, along with many other advantages.

But people at these schools don't want to be redistricted to Wells. Go to a crappy school so your kid can make the team? No thanks.

How does a school that hasn't even opened get designated crappy?

NP. Don’t be obtuse. Based on performance of feeder schools. Would you like to be zoned there?

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Anonymous wrote:Deal families could support redistricting so that fewer kids were IB for the school. If Lafayette and Coolidge went to Wells and Coolidge and Bancroft (and Oyster) went to MacFarland and Roosevelt, there would be more opportunity to play sports, along with many other advantages.

But people at these schools don't want to be redistricted to Wells. Go to a crappy school so your kid can make the team? No thanks.

How does a school that hasn't even opened get designated crappy?

Anonymous wrote:Deal families could support redistricting so that fewer kids were IB for the school. If Lafayette and Coolidge went to Wells and Coolidge and Bancroft (and Oyster) went to MacFarland and Roosevelt, there would be more opportunity to play sports, along with many other advantages.

But people at these schools don't want to be redistricted to Wells. Go to a crappy school so your kid can make the team? No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, redistricting schools such as Lafayette, Bancroft, and Shepherd would be at the detriment of the basketball team. From what I understand 99% of the players in the past 10 years have came from those schools and are highly competitive.

Smaller class sizes vs. having a competitive middle school basketball team? Wow. Just wow.

Seriously, who cares if the basketball team would be better or worse? The point on this thread is what can DCPS do to give more kids in DC an opportunity to play a sport at their neighborhood school.

That isn't the point of the thread. The OP asked about her child's odds of making the teams. The reality is Key, Janney, Murch, and etc don't exactly have competitive basketball players. The same can not be said for baseball.

The reality is Key does not feed into Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, redistricting schools such as Lafayette, Bancroft, and Shepherd would be at the detriment of the basketball team. From what I understand 99% of the players in the past 10 years have came from those schools and are highly competitive.

Smaller class sizes vs. having a competitive middle school basketball team? Wow. Just wow.

Seriously, who cares if the basketball team would be better or worse? The point on this thread is what can DCPS do to give more kids in DC an opportunity to play a sport at their neighborhood school.

That isn't the point of the thread. The OP asked about her child's odds of making the teams. The reality is Key, Janney, Murch, and etc don't exactly have competitive basketball players. The same can not be said for baseball.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, redistricting schools such as Lafayette, Bancroft, and Shepherd would be at the detriment of the basketball team. From what I understand 99% of the players in the past 10 years have came from those schools and are highly competitive.

Smaller class sizes vs. having a competitive middle school basketball team? Wow. Just wow.

Seriously, who cares if the basketball team would be better or worse? The point on this thread is what can DCPS do to give more kids in DC an opportunity to play a sport at their neighborhood school.

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, redistricting schools such as Lafayette, Bancroft, and Shepherd would be at the detriment of the basketball team. From what I understand 99% of the players in the past 10 years have came from those schools and are highly competitive.

Smaller class sizes vs. having a competitive middle school basketball team? Wow. Just wow.

Unfortunately, redistricting schools such as Lafayette, Bancroft, and Shepherd would be at the detriment of the basketball team. From what I understand 99% of the players in the past 10 years have came from those schools and are highly competitive.

Agree with PPs, the most common sports teams are really competitive. We know a family whose kid loved basketball and played a lot and they bought a house in bounds for Deal so he could play on a good team. Tried out and didn't make the team. We do know someone who made another team in a sport they hadn't played a lot previously, but the kid is super athletic and beat out other kids with more years of experience in the sport. I'm not sure exactly what the criteria are for each sport but you could contact the coaches. And as others have suggested, since it's a huge school also look for other outlets for that sport.