It is not for everyone and every parent and child who is interested potentially needs to examine their individual situation. There are many kids who are bored in grade school and welcome the challenge of the academics at Latin School. Are they better off being challenged at a younger age? I think yes (and no none of my four sons attended Latin School as their dad did) I am fine with that. I too would have been fine if they wanted to. They did not want to and I would not force them. I doubt many of their students are forced to attend.

 

Yes it can create some awkwardness in college, but it also prepares you in many ways to get more out of college and your education. It also allows you to possibly enter the work force two years earlier than others you age.So, if the student is mature enough and can handle it, adjust to it - much more good can come of it then bad IMO

 

Hard to trade 2 years in the work force for 2 years of ones childhood.

But can understand certain situations.

Brian O'Conner went from Latin to TMC to being drafted by the NY Knicks (draft was a lot more rounds back then). While at TMC he teamed with NCC current coach Ronny Dawn and O'Conner (I think he was 6'8" or 6'9") went up against Xavier's Joe Sunderman in a game that TMC lost in a close one. Sunderman is now the Xavier basketball radio announcer.

Newport kids don't need anyone poking fun at them, they have enough challenges. Your attempt at humor was just that a poor attempt.

 

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Yo Mustang... We need you... Do you know anything about pre 1970 Covington Latin Basketball?

 

Post 70's I remember losing to them at St. Thomas Gym when they had Justice and I remember them beating us at Brossart as recently as our homecoming game in 1990 when we were 5-22 - the year prior to Coach Tom Creamer coming on board and beginning the great turnaround of Brossart basketball.

 

Perhaps pre-70's or thereabouts I remember a night at the Campbell County Middle School, where we played our home games, when Fr. Ed Heile was going for his 100th win. We beat them in triple-overtime. The most distraught person in the house was the photographer who was following Fr. Ed around to capture the moment of his winning his 100th. Apparently he knew that Brossart was their best chance, and that it might be weeks before they had another opportunity.

 

From 1960 through 1968 St. Mary/Brossart had a combined record of 33-151. Many of our wins during that era were Latin, Holy Family-Ashland, Tollesboro, and St. Rita School for the Deaf. I remember Silver Grove and St. Patrick being way too good for us. In 1963 we finally got a bona fide win over a "big school" - we beat Walton-Verona. It was our only win of the season.

 

I'm sure the Big Green Horse might be able to provide some W-L info about CovLatin pre-70's.

Hard to trade 2 years in the work force for 2 years of ones childhood.

But can understand certain situations.

 

Agreed.

It's not what I wanted for my kids, even though those Cov Latin mailings never cease. :lol2:

 

I could see it being a good fit if you are a very bright kid, and you KNOW you want to go to med school or some other profession that takes a lot of years--and you just want to get there.

Brian O'Conner went from Latin to TMC to being drafted by the NY Knicks (draft was a lot more rounds back then). While at TMC he teamed with NCC current coach Ronny Dawn and O'Conner (I think he was 6'8" or 6'9") went up against Xavier's Joe Sunderman in a game that TMC lost in a close one. Sunderman is now the Xavier basketball radio announcer.

 

His Latin school education also landed him with a Very big job at Convergy's.

9th Region tournament histories are found at - KentuckySportsHistory.com - Page 2. You can trace Latin...or any school...in post-season play.

 

I'll help you out......2. Basketball tournament scores, records and lists for districts, regions and state

I just feel bad for the kids of Cov Latin honestly. It's no fun to be in that position ever. But remember basketball is more then just wins and losses, especially at the high school level.

I just feel bad for the kids of Cov Latin honestly. It's no fun to be in that position ever. But remember basketball is more then just wins and losses, especially at the high school level.

 

Hats off and much respect to those kids who show up at every practice and every game, to play the sport they love, even though they are aware that it's going to be a lopsided score.

I know we're on a site talking about high school sports, but the one obvious, glaring point of differentiation for Latin kids, and the kids that we talk about in virtually every other thread, is this... not one of them is at Latin for athletics. Even the occasional kids who are athletic and achieve some modicum of success are there not to be developed as basketball players, but as students. And while it seems socially awkward to most of the posters at this site, it is truly the right fit for kids who are so intellectually gifted that their talents would be wasted if they had to endure the slower intellectual pace of more "ordinary" schools. Its not for every kid, and it is not even right for every kid that goes there.... but for some it definitely is the right fit.

 

And as to Mustang's joke, I can honestly relate that, following a tennis match in the late 1980's when Bellevue had defeated the Trojans, a Bellevue parent said to my father, who was wearing a Latin T shirt "I wouldn't get too upset this... our boys are gonna wind up workin' for your boys one of these days..." Hard to find fault with Mustang's joke from my perspective....

I took Mustang's humor as more of a pat on the back to the Latin kids than a jab at the Newport kids.

 

I did too.

 

Northwestern has been doing the chant ‘That’s all right, that’s OK—you’re gonna work for us someday’” to Big 10 schools for years. Not meant as an insult to Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, etc. but rather a testament to its academic excellence.

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From the Chicago Sports Blog:

 

With all due respect to Northwestern’s successful, lower-profile sports like tennis and women’s lacrosse (five straight national titles), the school has a well-deserved reputation as a perennial underdog. Academics tower over athletics, and there’s a strong preference to keep it that way. “As a kid, I remember sitting in the stands at football games and Northwestern would be losing,” says Jim Phillips, the school’s athletic director. “And the fans would be yelling, ‘That’s all right, that’s OK—you’re gonna work for us someday.’”

Not meant as an insult to Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, etc.

 

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Riiiiiiiight.......

I have an awful sense of humor so I am not bothered by Mustang's joke at all but I do think if I was the parent of a kid at Newport or even had ties to the school I would feel a little slighted by it. To an unbiased outsider it could come off as elitist.

There's no "could" about it. I've seen that chant for years out of CovCath (I was a Holmes Grad) and didn't like it then nor do I now. The CovLatin kids are and should act better than such tripe.

The thing about Latin School is I could see them using that cheer against Cov Cath or any other school. It isn't about Newport IMO. I do agree though that it is a cheer I wouldn't use unless in response to some "trash talking" by the other cheering section.