Until I saw this post, I had forgotten how spots at City of Evanston camps go the morning of registration like they were Taylor Swift tickets. Not knowing this, and thinking that the City offered readily accessible, similar quality programs is the fruit of having a ton of administrators who don't live in Evanston.
Until I saw this post, I had forgotten how spots at City of Evanston camps go the morning of registration like they were Taylor Swift tickets. Not knowing this, and thinking that the City offered readily accessible, similar quality programs is the fruit of having a ton of administrators who don't live in Evanston.
It made me think of the exporting of athletics to the City. Obviously no one recognized that for most of the out of school sports, the City is basically a landlord for athletic fields and they don't actually run the programs. FAAM/ETHS feeder program- basketball, EBSA - baseball/softball, AYSO/Team Evanston/FC Lakeshore/Jabhat - soccer, and so forth.
Our family's experience with sports activities run by the City is that they were of pretty dubious value. Maybe others feel differently.
Net result - things that are not equivalent get passed off as being the same.
It’s crazy to me that D65 sports programs are not free. For the past few years you could just sign your kid up through school and they could play. The organization was kind of a mess but kids played. And it meant anyone could play regardless of whether they could pay. Now it’s through the park district (at least for the younger elementary kids I am not sure about 3rd-5th) with a fee. And the middle school teams have a fee to participate too. The district spent tens of thousands on catered meals for administrators and now some kids can’t play sports because it’s no longer free.
Until I saw this post, I had forgotten how spots at City of Evanston camps go the morning of registration like they were Taylor Swift tickets. Not knowing this, and thinking that the City offered readily accessible, similar quality programs is the fruit of having a ton of administrators who don't live in Evanston.
It made me think of the exporting of athletics to the City. Obviously no one recognized that for most of the out of school sports, the City is basically a landlord for athletic fields and they don't actually run the programs. FAAM/ETHS feeder program- basketball, EBSA - baseball/softball, AYSO/Team Evanston/FC Lakeshore/Jabhat - soccer, and so forth.
Our family's experience with sports activities run by the City is that they were of pretty dubious value. Maybe others feel differently.
Net result - things that are not equivalent get passed off as being the same.
It’s crazy to me that D65 sports programs are not free. For the past few years you could just sign your kid up through school and they could play. The organization was kind of a mess but kids played. And it meant anyone could play regardless of whether they could pay. Now it’s through the park district (at least for the younger elementary kids I am not sure about 3rd-5th) with a fee. And the middle school teams have a fee to participate too. The district spent tens of thousands on catered meals for administrators and now some kids can’t play sports because it’s no longer free.