Please, someone show me a level playing field ANYWHERE in the world, and I'll eat this keyboard. No way, no how. You level one area, and that just changes something else.

 

Male and Manual should be very worried...they're next!!!

 

I am confused on your request. Are you saying attempts to level playing fields don't exist in the world?

 

Cause our society is FILLED with attempts to level the playing fields. From fair trade policies put on imported goods, to professional sports where the worse team gets the #1 pick to the best team getting the last pick, to salary caps, to gender and racial quotas, to etc, etc etc.

You should be glad they let you have the 240 (which they wouldn't have too). Otherwise, your sports teams would be somewhat limited.

 

 

Exactly, that's why we can't just charge more for tuition and just accept all that want to come. If the County cut off the agreement there would be far less than 240 that could afford to pay the full cost to recoup the lost state money.

One thing that wasn't mentioned in reference to the cartoon that started this thread 110 post ago is that Steve Cornelius is an unabashed supporter of Pulaski County High School, he was an all-state runner there and reports on them almost exclusively leaving the newest reporters to cover the other two schools.

 

You are kidding--right. One need look no further than the Commonwealth Journal itself to realize this statement is incorrect.

I am confused on your request. Are you saying attempts to level playing fields don't exist in the world?

 

Cause our society is FILLED with attempts to level the playing fields. From fair trade policies put on imported goods, to professional sports where the worse team gets the #1 pick to the best team getting the last pick, to salary caps, to gender and racial quotas, to etc, etc etc.

 

 

Just as you state....attempts. Hs affirmative action done anything to "level the playing field"? Has title IX leveled the playing field? Women still earn .70 to the men's $1.00. Have salary caps kept teams like the Patriots from winning? There is no level playing field. It's a utopian ideal, or to put it into political terms...a socialistic ideal.

How about "seperate, but equal".

 

OB, there is a Mr. Plessey on the phone for you.

One thing that wasn't mentioned in reference to the cartoon that started this thread 110 post ago is that Steve Cornelius is an unabashed supporter of Pulaski County High School, he was an all-state runner there and reports on them almost exclusively leaving the newest reporters to cover the other two schools.

 

You are kidding--right. One need look no further than the Commonwealth Journal itself to realize this statement is incorrect.

 

Go back and check the bylines. Steve writes almost all of the Pulaski articles. Brandon Cross usually covers Somerset and Marty Mayer covers Pulaski.

A sidenote to the poster who asked if Pulaski/Somerset has private schools? They have one, a pretty new school, Somerset Christian.

I thought the cartoon was quite funny. The two schools specifically targeted in the cartoon have been fined for cheating - I don't see the big problem here.

Just as you state....attempts. Hs affirmative action done anything to "level the playing field"? Has title IX leveled the playing field? Women still earn .70 to the men's $1.00. Have salary caps kept teams like the Patriots from winning? There is no level playing field. It's a utopian ideal, or to put it into political terms...a socialistic ideal.

 

It has improved female sports 300%.

 

Some work well, some are horrible failures, some do nothing, some do a lot.

 

Allowing private school education to fulfill the demands of the KRS that Hearsay quoted would be one that I would consider successful.

I am not a lawyer but if this is law, it is law that is broken all the time.

 

Could this KRS be referring to the fact that children have to go to school?

 

Again, I am not a lawyer but if what you state is the case explain to me how it is lawful for any student to pay tuition to go to a public school because it happens all the time.

 

Just to be clear, when I am talking about there being no boundaries I mean that any school is free to accept out of district pupils who apply. In other words, there are no boundaries if a school wants to accept an out of district pupil.

 

Since you disagree Hearsay, are you saying schools are not free to accept out of district pupils who apply? And if your answer is yes, why isn't it enforced?

 

Leatherneck, I am asking for your opinion too since Hearsay played the leatherneck card.

 

In many rural areas, school boards have reciprocal agreements with surrounding counties to accept kids who may live just across the county line but not near a bus route for that county. If public school students are attending public schools in another county, it's likely a bordering county in which a reciprocal agreement is in place and voted on by the school board. To my knowledge, a student in Hopkinsville can't attend Bowling Green High because there would be no agreement in place. However, a student in Bowling Green could attend University Heights Academy in Hopkinsville without such agreement.

In many rural areas, school boards have reciprocal agreements with surrounding counties to accept kids who may live just across the county line but not near a bus route for that county. If public school students are attending public schools in another county, it's likely a bordering county in which a reciprocal agreement is in place and voted on by the school board. To my knowledge, a student in Hopkinsville can't attend Bowling Green High because there would be no agreement in place. However, a student in Bowling Green could attend University Heights Academy in Hopkinsville without such agreement.

 

Students can attend without reciprocal agreements, they usually just pay tuition instead. Difference is that with the public school, they would get no financial assistance to offset the tuition while at the private school they could.

I thought the cartoon was quite funny. The two schools specifically targeted in the cartoon have been fined for cheating - I don't see the big problem here.

 

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I thought the cartoon was quite funny. The two schools specifically targeted in the cartoon have been fined for cheating - I don't see the big problem here.

 

Then why not include the public schools that have also been caught cheating? If it is just about cheating schools on both sides have done it.

Then why not include the public schools that have also been caught cheating? If it is just about cheating schools on both sides have done it.

 

I suggest making one then so that things may even themselves out.

I suggest making one then so that things may even themselves out.

 

Maybe the cartoon is part of a series, after public schools, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemons.......