And that is great, but it is not the same thing as being in the city with 30 other HIGH schools public and private to compete with for time and money and business. It is a great accomplishment but you have to understand that in Louisville the community is divided into so many high school loyalties it is abit more difficult to motivate the base. It is one of the great things about small town football, it really gets the loyalty and backing that the city schools tend to lack, not because they aren't proud of their school, but it doesn't tend to represent the comunity in the way that say Belfry does the local community or St.X and Trinity do with the Louisville Catholic Community. It is not an excuse we should be able to do alot, and we do, but it is not the same thing.

 

 

While I agree with what you say, you also need to look at it like this - our school has graduated anywhere from 250 students(1980's) to 165(current) students in the past 30 years, you guys have averaged what, about 400 students that entire time? How many CEO's from companies are your alumni? While we have little competition your sheer numbers make up for it.

 

Ask and yeah shall recieve.

While I agree with what you say, you also need to look at it like this - our school has graduated anywhere from 250 students(1980's) to 165(current) students in the past 30 years, you guys have averaged what, about 400 students that entire time? How many CEO's from companies are your alumni? While we have little competition your sheer numbers make up for it.

 

Ask and yeah shall recieve.

Actually, Manual graduates over 300 a year... the atrition rates are high, and every class is much smaller than when it started.

And Manual graduates a lot of artists and actors and professors... not so many CEOs.

And Manual graduates a lot of artists and actors and professors... not so many CEOs.

$$$Gimme time... just gimme time$$$

I think that the biggest problem for the JCPS, and maybe for most city schools is the lack of support for the schools over the long haul. I worked with a fellow that was very active in his schools booster organisation for several years, until his kids graduated, then he was finished. His work was for his kids and not the school. Compare that to schools like Trinity or x where the alumni are still out in force many long years later. I get the feeling that that loyalty is still there in the more rural counties.

:thumb: :thumb: That is true. While that is not to say that there aren't some out there giving and doing for the public schools it is a different dynamic. Which is what I have been trying to say, it is not impossible, it is just alot more complicated than simply going out and making the ask. There are advantages in that reguard to being from a private school or living in a community where one out of four folks went to your school.

Your post says a lot. There's a lot you COULD do, and SHOULD do, but since it's not happening, the solution is to kick out those that do. You say it's not an excuse, but really...come on. You admitted it's possible, but no one's going to make any effort to do it, so you give up.

First of all I never gave up. And I am not for prop 20, as I have stated 50 times or more in this thread. You have not read this thread and are leaping to incorrect assumptions.

$$$Gimme time... just gimme time$$$

:lol: :lol: Keep on trucking, you just better remember to give for new lights... We might still need them by then!

How many, one county removed from a big city, and with a huge plant.

 

Bullitt has 4-5 high schools, Oldham - 3, Spencer - 2, I think....

 

 

Scott is on the HIGHER $$$$ side of Lexington, has Toyota, etc.....They have it nice..

 

Well, Henderson, except they don't have the Toyota plant, but I don't see that the Toyota plant in Princeton, IN has done anything for Princeton and Gibson Southern.

Male, Manual, and Scott County are co-sponsors of the "Kick the private schools out of the KHSAA proposal." Let me be the first to say I am very disappointed in these three schools. Nothing like having your cake and eating it too.

 

Anyone?

Dear Guru,

I, for one, do not blame the public schools for being upset that private schools are able to take students from any part of Kentucky. Private schools must take students from wherever they can get them. Trinity just increased its student body to 1400 students last year. I think the proposal will pass and Male, Highlands, Manual and many other public schools will reap the benefits. BUT the KHSAA is wrong if they think most of the private schools will stay in the KHSAA.

Why would the private schools stay in the KHSAA? As long as the private schools in Kentucky can play private schools outside of Kentucky there would be no need to play the public schools. You must remember that private schools have "to be income producing" and are not able to exist unless tuition, alumni donations and sports revenues come through the doors.

I think this proposal is a good one.