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And to add another anecdote, the overall #1 high school in the US in Virginia (by some rankings at least) doesn't have a football team. Sports like cross countr

• richwater 4y ago
  TJ might be one of the best high schools in the world not just VA.
• justsocrateasin 4y ago
  This anecdote is misleading. TJ is a magnet school with a formal application process. Students study for years to get into TJ. Although many of their sports teams are excellent, students don't go to TJ for sports - they just happen to be over-achieving outside of the classroom as well.
• acid__ 4y ago
  They had a football team when I attended ~10 years ago.
• throwaway0a5e 4y ago
  That's just a fancy way of having a proxy for "rich people". Football, baseball, basketball, hockey. Those are the sports of the unwashed masses. That a magnet school that attracts the students of wealthy parents who are deeply invested in their kids eduction doesn't have a sport the those demographics turn their nose up at <insert low effort quip about brain damage here> is expected. I bet they have rowing and lacross to make up for it.