Want good public high schools? Look no further than the Virginia and Maryland suburbs around D.C.

Lots of high schools around the United States share the name of the Washington football team, but not as many as the franchise says.

Kudos to DeMatha Catholic High School band founder/director John Mitchell, who was profiled by the New York Times yesterday.

Washingtonians have spent a lot of time over the last couple of years bemoaning the sorry state of many of our professional sports teams. But at least one high school squad is doing us proud: The H.D. Woodson Senior High School girls’ basketball squad, who has dominated the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association for the last several years.

About 4:50 into this video, Dunbar High coach Craig Jefferies pulls his players off the field during a September game against Fort Hill High in Cumberland, Md. If only we could claim that this is just a plot for an upcoming drama on the fictional field of television’s Dillon High, we would. Unfortunately though, it appears as if a serious breach is brewing between District of Columbia high school football teams and some Maryland counterparts…