Frankfort district Tournament

[FHS BB]

Tommrow the 41st starts. I can't wait for the rematch between Frankfort and Franklin County. After the way they racked up the score the first time on us we should be pumped up. Though thier a realy good team. This district is not that tough with zero ranked squads. Even if Franklin County does get passed us they will lose in the region which is good.

[TheCoach]

Man you are just wanting to get FC pumped up to put up another 30 spot on you all.:fire: Your team has been a huge disappointment to me and several other people I have talked to around this area. You all have some pretty decent young coaches and young talent, but you all dont care to listen to anything they have to say. Maybe its you all, maybe its the school, maybe its the parents but you all have underachieved greatly this year IMO!!!!:madman:

[STRIKE3]

Take the personal jabs, to the pm's and discuss the District.

[TheCoach]

sorry, just a fan of baseball in the frankfort area and im just disappointed overall with the baseball status in frankfort overall. The district tournamnet should be a good championship game coming. Best of luck to all teams involved.

[dirtycleats]

Tommrow the 41st starts. I can't wait for the rematch between Frankfort and Franklin County. After the way they racked up the score the first time on us we should be pumped up. Though thier a realy good team. This district is not that tough with zero ranked squads. Even if Franklin County does get passed us they will lose in the region which is good.

Just to let you know, Two schools in this district are or have been ranked and a third one is vastly improved as the year has gone on. Woodford county is ranked 47 in coaches poll. Franklin County has played 18 games against ranked opponents and have gone 9-9 against some of the top teams in the state, and Western Hills have ended the year winning many games that they would have lost earlier in the year. Frankfort High is not the status quo for baseball in the 41st district.

[FANOFTHE11th]

Frankfort has some very good athletes, but their problem is very simple, not enough numbers to consistently be competetive. I have posted on another thread that it will be interesting to see how this feeder deal plays out in 2008.

 

Frankfort High depends in large part on out of district kids for their enrollment. I wonder how this will be handled in Franfort. I guess if 2 Street is the feeder parents will have to make the decision to send their kids to 2 Steet in 7th grade in order to eligilble as freshman for athletics.

 

IMO, the schools in Frankfort would be more competetive if there were only two High Schools like in 1980.

 

Scott County's population has grown to equal that of Frankfort/Franklin County and has only one High School.

 

FHS has alot of tradition, but I guess my point is, if this feeder deal is a deterrent for out of district kids to attend FHS (as they have for years) it will hurt athletics as well as the overall enrollment numbers.

[FHS BB]

I am a baseball player/ student at frankfort High. If our city had no Frankfort High or Western Hills, and just had one huge school named Franklin County then we would be one of the top ten teams in the state. I am friends with people at those two other schools too and they have really good baseball players, and so does our school.

[MLB50]

Frankfort has some very good athletes, but their problem is very simple, not enough numbers to consistently be competetive. I have posted on another thread that it will be interesting to see how this feeder deal plays out in 2008.

 

Frankfort High depends in large part on out of district kids for their enrollment. I wonder how this will be handled in Franfort. I guess if 2 Street is the feeder parents will have to make the decision to send their kids to 2 Steet in 7th grade in order to eligilble as freshman for athletics.

 

IMO, the schools in Frankfort would be more competetive if there were only two High Schools like in 1980.

 

Scott County's population has grown to equal that of Frankfort/Franklin County and has only one High School.

 

FHS has alot of tradition, but I guess my point is, if this feeder deal is a deterrent for out of district kids to attend FHS (as they have for years) it will hurt athletics as well as the overall enrollment numbers.

 

I agree 100%. Frankfort has too many high schools. There are 5 public high schools in Lexington and 3 in Frankfort. The Frankfort/Franklin County school population is 900 FCHS; 500WHHS; 200-250FHS. That's about 1600 kids and 3 high schools. Financially, this is a nightmare. Everyone must admit that 3 high schools with limited tax revenue (because most of Frankfort's buildings, utilities, etc. are state buildings and it generates no tax base) is way too many schools. One high school located strategically on the east-west connector would be 15 minutes from anyone in Franklin County. Instead, we build 4 new elementary schools, great decision Sir Monte...

 

Just think of the donations and funding that is received by the 4A schools in the surrounding counties (SCOTT CO, SHELBY CO, WOODFORD CO & ANDERSON CO) from the communities and businesses. All of these counties have one high school for city & county kids combined. All of the Lexington schools that are in our region, as well as Madison Central, are all 4A as well. How do you expect to compete with these other schools when you have limited funding from businesses (because they have to sponsor 3 schools), limited funding from board and school districts and limited tax base. It's amazing that these 3 schools can compete in any facet of athletics.

[FHS BB]

Ironicaly some schools have enrollment bigger then 1600! All three schools combined are not as big as some high schools when it comes to enrolment! Would that make it a four "A" if it was one school with 1600 students?

[acemona]

I agree 100%. Frankfort has too many high schools. There are 5 public high schools in Lexington and 3 in Frankfort. The Frankfort/Franklin County school population is 900 FCHS; 500WHHS; 200-250FHS. That's about 1600 kids and 3 high schools. Financially, this is a nightmare. Everyone must admit that 3 high schools with limited tax revenue (because most of Frankfort's buildings, utilities, etc. are state buildings and it generates no tax base) is way too many schools. One high school located strategically on the east-west connector would be 15 minutes from anyone in Franklin County. Instead, we build 4 new elementary schools, great decision Sir Monte...

 

Just think of the donations and funding that is received by the 4A schools in the surrounding counties (SCOTT CO, SHELBY CO, WOODFORD CO & ANDERSON CO) from the communities and businesses. All of these counties have one high school for city & county kids combined. All of the Lexington schools that are in our region, as well as Madison Central, are all 4A as well. How do you expect to compete with these other schools when you have limited funding from businesses (because they have to sponsor 3 schools), limited funding from board and school districts and limited tax base. It's amazing that these 3 schools can compete in any facet of athletics.

 

 

Your numbers are just plain wrong:

Franklin County is over 1100

Western Hills may exceed 800 next year

Frankfort High has about 320

 

Monte Chance has nothing to do with Frankfort High School so his decisions about elementary schools is irrelevant.

 

1992 they tried to combine the schools and the community was against it.

 

A school located on the E/W connector may be 15 minutes from the other schools, but it is not reachable in 15 minutes from 'anywhere in the county'.

 

If you talk to leading Superintendents in the state, the ideal comprehensive high school has about 1000 students. Look at the numbers in the Oldham County System - i would say the county system is playing its #s about right, and Frankfor fits a special niche for those who need it.

 

Lastly, the feeder system rules will not come into play as long as the city and county schools have a reciprocal agreement. If the schools allow state money to travel with the kids when they go to an out of district school, that is okay. Middle school choice won't matter.

 

You must not have paid much attention to Frankfort High's Athletic programs the last 5-7 years. Some have competed exceptionally well, while others have not - like most high schools. It is not rare for the Football, soccer, boys basketball, and track to compete with both county and hills and with other teams in the region.

[Hilltopper2005]

From what I have seen this year, Frankfort's youth and lack of discipline has been a bigger issue than their numbers. If, and that's a big If, 1) all players return, 2) the coaches return, 3) one of the mothers stays away, and 4) the players dedicate themselves to working hard, the Panthers could be much improved in 2008.

[dirtycleats]

Your numbers are just plain wrong:

You must not have paid much attention to Frankfort High's Athletic programs the last 5-7 years. Some have competed exceptionally well, while others have not - like most high schools. It is not rare for the Football, soccer, boys basketball, and track to compete with both county and hills and with other teams in the region.

Exceptionally well??? Wow which team are you talking about. Oh it must be the one with more out of district transfer kids than Scott County and Lexington combined. And even with that I say competing exceptionally well has to be targeted either to one sport, and those teams were composed of 75% non Frankfort kids. So tell me this, how can you preach to someone else when you obviously are miss stating the facts.

[gortney]

Tommrow the 41st starts. I can't wait for the rematch between Frankfort and Franklin County. After the way they racked up the score the first time on us we should be pumped up. Though thier a realy good team. This district is not that tough with zero ranked squads. Even if Franklin County does get passed us they will lose in the region which is good.

 

The coach pulled the starters after the 1st inning. They scored 15. He did the right thing. The JV scored the other 15. FC batted through twice and then some in the 1st. FC needs some work as well. Not the FC's fault FHS had a bad game.