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According to my Funk & Wagnalls: Varsity: any first string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like.
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Jmo but sometimes I think that we do have to keep things in perspective. |
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When viewed from our perspective, which tends to rank the entire spectrum of playing ability, it seems pretty silly to call this level of ball "varsity". But perhaps when viewed from the child's perspective it's a pretty big deal. They are playing on their school's best team and that is a big achievement for them.
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Interesting side note: T-shirt, headband, wrist bands, and jewelry rules are strictly enforced. If we, as officials, don't enforce these rules, we don't get paid by our assigner. All officials know this, as do all coaches. After a few reminders the first week of the season, we no longer have any problems with these "Fashion Police" rules. No, "The officials last week let her wear her lucky polka dot headband".
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In the case of our small Catholic parish schools (described in the posts above), this is the case. Often these schools only have one, or two classes, in each grade, from kindergarten through eighth grade, after which they move on to high school, usually one of our Catholic high schools. My local parish school only covers kindergarten through grade five, with only one class in each grade. After graduating, these kids often move on to the public middle school, or to another parish school in our town that has kindergarten through grade eight.
Most of the public schools in Connecticut have a three tier system. Kindergarten through fifth grade in elementary schools. Grades six through grade eight in middle schools, and grades nine through twelve in high schools. Some towns even further break down the elementary schools into upper and lower schools. The junior high system (grades seven through nine) was done away with about twenty-five years ago here in the Constitution State. The school system that I retired from was one of the last in the state to use such a system. There are only a few systems lift that still use the junior high system, which is why our state high school sports governing body uses grade ten through twelve population to determine the school size for state tournament divisions.
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My "jr. high" was 7th and 8th. I wasn't aware there was a distinction between "middle school" and "jr. high" other than semantics. There was one district in my previous locale that had and 8th and 9th grade school.
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Pretty much the way it was when I was a kid in both VT & Maine. In FL, they kept referring to "Middle School". So, I would think, "That is 5th & 6th grade." But, actually, grades 6-8 are housed in the same buildings, and are referred to as 'middle schoolers'. K-5 [as opposed to K-9] is the elementary school age group. And Junior High exists only in our minds.
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If the 10 & 11 year olds are in Jr High, they might not necessarily be the best athletes.
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As far as I know, there is only two "real" junior high schools remaining in Connecticut. They are part of a regional school district involving three different small towns. All three towns send their kids to one regional high school. The two smaller towns send their kids to one junior high school, located in one of those very small towns. The largest town sends it's kids to the other junior high school, located in that town. There have been several attempts to switch to a middle school format, but the largest town refuses to give up local control (like they have over their elementary schools) over their ninth graders and turn control of said ninth graders over to a regional district.
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IOW maybe wait until they get selected to a Grade 7 competitive team before you start treating them like high school varsity players. That was my point. Last edited by Jurassic Referee; Sun Nov 21, 2010 at 01:56pm. |
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