KHSAA board approves public-private measures

[rockmom]

The board voted 12-5 to establish territories and feeder patterns for the 46 non-public schools in the KHSAA. Students who leave one high school's feeder pattern for another school would be temporarily sidelined from sports. By an 11-6 vote, the board also approved sanctions for seventh- and eighth-graders who play sports for one high school then go to a different high school -- public or private -- for the ninth grade.

In both cases athletes would have to sit out one year of sports -- freshman or junior varsity -- and then sit out a year of varsity play.

 

KHSAA board approves public-private measures

[STRIKE3]

Oh My, this will be cause for some interesting luncheons today across Kentucky.

[Trinity alum]

I was starting a thread at the same time. Could someone delete the duplicate? This looks like the public school proposal. If it is, and the BOE approves it, it will end up in court.

[Tough as Nails]

This should be interesting to see what schools are defined as feeder schools. Also, what about the concession that the privates were willing to make? There was no mention in the article of a child going from private grade school to public high school.

[Trinity alum]

This should be interesting to see what schools are defined as feeder schools. Also, what about the concession that the privates were willing to make? There was no mention in the article of a child going from private grade school to public high school.

That was a proposal made by the privates that was REJECTED by the publics. The first time some kid from a Catholic grade school sixty miles south of Louisville is told they have to commute to Louisville to play sports, this will end up in court.

[ladiesbballcoach]

Whether it is right or wrong, it will be good to get it finalized and move onto the next session of this debate. The courts looking at the proposal.

 

Get through that and finally get a plan in place that might address the issues. And the focus back on the kids.

[KnightBird]

Is there any other state in this country that stops a child from participating in sports for 50% of their high school life?

I mean, short of committing what would be a crime outside the sports arena, does anything warrant hurting a Kentucky youth to this extent?

[cshs81]

Scenario: A public school 8th grader goes onto the local public school as a frosh and plays frosh/jv ball. He THEN transfers to a Catholic high school. From the way I read this proposal/plan, the kid is eligible to play any level of sports immediately. The proposal seems to only deal with the frosh year based on what school you attended as an 8th grader.

 

Correct?

[cshs81]

Under the proposal, private schools with more than 300 students could draw their student-athletes from "affiliated schools" -- those with the same governing body, such as the Archdiocese of Louisville.

 

Is this saying that in NKY that a St Paul kid in Florence could attend CCH without impunity since St Paul and CCH are both in the Covington diocese?

[ladiesbballcoach]

Is there any other state in this country that stops a child from participating in sports for 50% of their high school life?I mean, short of committing what would be a crime outside the sports arena, does anything warrant hurting a Kentucky youth to this extent?

That will only occur if a parent CHOOSES to move their child from a different school setting. It seems the thought process is that the parents will have to decide between an academic or athletic decision in moving their child, IN SOME CASES.

 

In OTHER CASES, it will be both an academic and athletic decision.

[cshs81]

How many St Thomas/St Catherine/St Therese kids end up at Highlands?

[Watusi]

I don't like any plan where a student athlete has to sit out more than 1 year for transferring schools. It is too harsh, IMO.

 

I guess the idea is to make sure a 9th grader who comes in from another system has to miss at least 1 year of "varsity" play?

[Zoolander]

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

 

Last night, I went to sleep in America... the land of the free, this morning I awakened to find myself in a land where the state is seeking more control over me and my kids.

 

I’m not a big public or private school advocate, but this is just plain wrong, even for 7th and 8th graders who play up on their school's varsity teams.

 

If a school has a good varsity coach that changes jobs either by choice or by force, it is not fair for kids playing in that system to get stuck with a different coach with different priorities and values. What if you son or daughter gets buried in a system that favors certain kids over others, and they’re not allowed the opportunity to fully develop their confidence and skills?

 

This is the opposite direction a free state should go, and only serves to prove that this has nothing to do with what is best for the kids, but has everything to do with insulating adults running the system.

 

This country did not achieve greatness by restricting freedoms. Freedom allows good programs to get better, and forces bad programs to improve or continue to fail.

 

In the short term, this will seem to stabilize some weak programs, but over time, it will only serve to weaken them further as many role players quit rather than continue to be frustrated under a coach or system they feel stuck with.

 

If a family is willing to change address, they should be able to enroll their kid anywhere they want. Allowing kids to have until the 9th grade before being locked into a system is right. Beyond this, the correct line would be to allow kids one move between grades 9 and 12, no questions asked. It would do much to level the playing field, and to ensure fairness for the kids that should be the top priority of this whole mess.

 

So there.

[KnightBird]

Is there any other state in this country that stops a child from participating in sports for 50% of their high school life?

 

If this needs to be reworded, does any other state in our country have a regulation that, if violated, the punishment for the student is to deny them from participating in sports for 50% of their high school life?

 

Or worded another way, does any other state in our country keep their kids from participating in sports for 50% of their high school life because their parents choose to change their school setting.

 

I am not interested in the Kentucky rationalization for what is being proposed,

I'm not interested in the arguments.

I want to know if other adults in this country have approved of this kind of punishment for their kids.

[BIGZIG]

Whether it is right or wrong, it will be good to get it finalized and move onto the next session of this debate. The courts looking at the proposal.

 

Get through that and finally get a plan in place that might address the issues. And the focus back on the kids.

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