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Nov242009

Could Manchester high schools lose their freshmen class?

Filed under Fall sports, Football, General, Gossip, High School Sports, NHIAA, Spring Sports, Winter Sports by bob hammerstrom at 3:37 pm

Manchester’s Mayor Ted Gatsas says he would like to redistrict the Manchester schools, and put the freshman class back in junior high according to a Union Leader story I read Sunday. What a mistake.

There are plenty of educational concerns when putting ninth-grade back in to the junior high. I just looking at this from an athletics standpoint.

First of all, does he really think Manchester schools will be able to compete with the rest of the state after following through with the above? There are no sports in Manchester junior high schools. Where will these players learn how to play sports without the feeder programs. Freshmen come in very green, and are developed separately from the upper classmen in most big schools. If his ideas go through, sophomores will become the equivalent of freshmen in experience on teams. They will not be able to come with the other much larger schools in Division 1. What was he thinking?

-Bob Hammerstrom

Tags: bob hammerstrom, High, junior, manchester, mayor, redistricting, schools, Ted Gatsas

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Mike 2 months ago 1 point
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It's just more hot air in Manch Vegas.

All it would do is shuffle students around, what is the improvement to come out of this? Won't happen.

It really wouldn't impact sports that much either. The better atheletes are playing in Babe Ruth or AAU, they would continue to do so. Manch Vegas has no school feeder system. No soccer, no football, no baseball at the middle schools. The high schools suceed due to the atheletes that play outside of school until they reach high school.

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MintyMint 2 months ago 1 point
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Gatsas isn't Manchester's mayor yet, he's the Mayor-Elect.

But I agree. Dumb idea. It's important for freshmen to practice with the JV's and varsity teams and learn the game.

BTW, Gatsas bought the election in Manchester. He spent over $200,000 to become mayor of Manchester. That's a joke.

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