rockmom Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Private-school eligibility rules challenged It's been awfully quiet in here!
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 If overturned, this might bring back up the private/public thread hot and heavy.
BuddyBW Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 Knew it would be only a matter of time before this was challenged. I think there's a good chance this is overturned.
Commander 25 Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 If overturned, this might bring back up the private/public thread hot and heavy. I agree. Everythiing is quiet right now. I geuss time will tell.
HIGHLANDS GUY Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 Should suprise no one that this is being challenged. Only surprise is why it took so long.
Trinity alum Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 I think that limits on merit based aid are flat out wrong and are intended to be punative. Can anyone give me one good reason to limit merit based aid.
rockmom Posted July 22, 2009 Author Posted July 22, 2009 High-school sports eligibility lawsuit could expand
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 High-school sports eligibility lawsuit could expand The rule, adopted prior to the 2007-08 school year, was designed to prevent sports recruiting under the guise of academic scholarships. But parents Nancy and Richard Evans said that it could force their 15-year-old daughter to choose between playing volleyball and accepting financial aid this year or in following years. I think what they mean is playing volleyball at the private school or accepting financial aid. She could always attend a public school and play.
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 If this gets overturned and athletes could receive 100% financial aid to play at a school, EXPECT this issue to be pushed even harder this time.
rockmom Posted July 23, 2009 Author Posted July 23, 2009 The rule, adopted prior to the 2007-08 school year, was designed to prevent sports recruiting under the guise of academic scholarships. But parents Nancy and Richard Evans said that it could force their 15-year-old daughter to choose between playing volleyball and accepting financial aid this year or in following years. I think what they mean is playing volleyball at the private school or accepting financial aid. She could always attend a public school and play. No, because if you read the whole article, the family says they'll still choose to keep their daughter at Presentation, because it's "just a game she loves". The answer to everything isn't "go to public school".
rockmom Posted July 23, 2009 Author Posted July 23, 2009 If this gets overturned and athletes could receive 100% financial aid to play at a school, EXPECT this issue to be pushed even harder this time. There was already a by-law in effect that no student could receive more than 50% aid. Now, it's saying that there can be no more than 25% of that 50% in scholarships. Given the limited resources of financial aid funding, it's almost impossible to receive 25% need-based financial aid. Schools spread the aid around as far as they possibly can.
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 No, because if you read the whole article, the family says they'll still choose to keep their daughter at Presentation, because it's "just a game she loves". The answer to everything isn't "go to public school". Yes, it is what they said. It said she was going to have to choose between volleyball or education and that is not correct. She had three choices and chose to eliminate one of them. That is fine and I commend her on that. But to say she can't go to school and play volleyball is inaccurate. She could and chose not to.
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 There was already a by-law in effect that no student could receive more than 50% aid. Now, it's saying that there can be no more than 25% of that 50% in scholarships. Given the limited resources of financial aid funding, it's almost impossible to receive 25% need-based financial aid. Schools spread the aid around as far as they possibly can. Now, RM will know this but before I get roasted, she can confirm that I think a split should be between open and closed enrollment AND NOT on private/public. In addition, I am FOR a voucher system where tax dollars can be used to pay private school tuition. I learned in another thread that I need to put disclaimers on things before some poor soul misinterprets my post and has their feelings hurt. IT WAS NOT RM.
Trinity alum Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 If this gets overturned and athletes could receive 100% financial aid to play at a school, EXPECT this issue to be pushed even harder this time. I asked before, what is wrong with merit based scholarships? I am talking about scholarships with well defined, objective criteria. The most common type is based on the test scores on the high school placement exam. Under the current rule, I would have been ineligible for sports. No one would confuse me with an athlete.
ladiesbballcoach Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I asked before, what is wrong with merit based scholarships? I am talking about scholarships with well defined, objective criteria. The most common type is based on the test scores on the high school placement exam. Under the current rule, I would have been ineligible for sports. No one would confuse me with an athlete. Not being fully aware of them I would be uncomfortable saying a firm yes or no. What I could see is who determines the merit of them? I think LCA got in trouble because a church wanted to do an outreach and pay for a member of a local community to attend LCA. I think that is great idea for a church to outreach in that way. I think they all should. To make sure it is on the up and up seems to be a logistic nightmare for all the different schools in the state.
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