LSURock

It just comes down to the fact that you think the government is the one and only answer and I don't. I'm sure if the private sector had half of he funds that the government has to provide education it would improve. You are a socialist and don't agree, thats fair. You will be on the wrong side of history.

I'm coming up with fantasies? How about this. The public school system in Kentucky is one othe worst in the country yet you would have us turn even more students over to you and somehow that would improve the situation. What really needs to happen is a voucher system that would give parents some real choice and force the public schools to compete. Then we would see some improvement.

No, you are the one that is wrong. Answer this. If all the private schools closed tomorrow and all the kids enrolled in public schools, would our taxes increase or decrease? You are correct in assuming that higher enrollments would be welcomed by the schools along with the money that it brings, but where does that money come from? In Louisville the JCPS system gets tax revenue for not educating thousands of students that elect to attend private schools. I don't regret my choice at all but I'm pretty tired of NEA fuzzy math. "higher amount from the state"? "federal money would be increased"? and this money would come from what source? Don't bother to answer, we all know this one. If you aren't in politics, you should consider it.

Prop 20 doesn't have anything to do with out of state student athletes. That measure may have been approved, I don't know.

Has the BOE ever ruled in favor of something that the BOC opposed? I think that this is a way of sending the motion back to its origin with a message to keep working it out to get it right.

How big of a radius is that? I can't imagine kids driving over twenty miles or so every day for school. Do they? Do you know? Are they driving past other Catholic schools to get to LexCath? That county thing may be a fact, but it also may mean nothing. The KHSAA investigated LexCath with a fine tooth comb and came up empty. So the cry-babies voted to kick them out anyway. Not really the American way is it?

You obviously don't get it. You just want your school to win and that is not what this is about. If you win a championship that doesn't include the best teams what have you done? Not much. If you publics want to be the Div. III of high school sports while the private schools compete at the Div. I level, so be it. How long will it be before these "field levelers" decide to handicap games to make things fairer. You guys will end up with leagues that resemble kiddie T-ball leagues. FYI, I would question your .900 winning percentage over PRP or anyone for that matter.

Sorry to disagree, but what makes you think investigations would work? They hired a ex-FBI agent to investigate LexCath for over a year billing more than 100 hours on the job at God only knows cost. The result. The investigation cleared LexCath and all the publics refused to believe it and proceeded to vote for prop 20. It is really sad to read all of the accounts in the CJ this past week of public school admins that know cheating is going but really don't have any facts. I'm glad our legal system isn't allowed to work this way. Some judge just has a "feeling" that you are speeding, so we are just going to suspend your license just in case.

Get serious, Trinity and X are the only big draws in town. I've been to all the other so-called storied rivalry games and they don't live up to a team hosting T or X. The past two years Manual/T has outdrawn Manual/Male. I would vote to never play another KHSAA public school under any circumstance. Your cowardly administrators made you bed now lie in it. I just wonder how they plan to level the playing field between the Males, Manuals, PRPs etc. with the bottom dwellers like Eastern and Iroquois and the rest. Good luck but Male will rule this new universe.

You can laugh all you want, but I'm betting in a few years the 4A trophy will be called the "Redman Trophy". Too bad it won't mean much. Ask yourself, why are they hapless? They aren't hapless in basketball of baseball.

Well if Manual only accepts students under very strict criteria, why was a former Trinity sophmore (and football player) allowed to transfer? It all happened in a matter of a couple of days. Explain that. Isn't it true that Manual has and has had students from outside Jefferson County?

I vote to not play any public school in any sport. I'm sure that some kind of ssnctioning body can be arranged so that teams from Kentucky can play teams from other states. The KHSAA can just dry up. I'm sure they will enjoy their record crowds of a few thousand to watch Male trounce whoever in the 4A final. They might as well schedule the games at Maxwell Field, it will be plenty big enough and at least one team won't have to travel.

The champagne corks are popping over at Male high school as we speak. Red must be the happiest man on earth. Titles as far as the eye can see. They won't mean anything but they will be won nontheless. I really hope that X romps male Friday.

What the heck are you talking about? BTW, I think Burke is at the head of the class at this point although I think Fidler has a lot of upside at the next level (of course this is assuming he doesn't fulfill his commitment to UK).

Hard work may separate the top teams from each other, but the top teams all have superior talent. You have to have the players.

I pointed out that you were in a football thread on a football board when you began preaching about its not just about football. Well on this board it is. I really don't know what your response means in relation to my post. :confused:

But this is a thread about football on the football board on a site dominated by, you guessed it, football.

I'm not familiar with anyone by that name. My point is that in another city (Nashville) I've learned that a diproportionate number of public school teachers pay for their children to attend private school. I wonder if it were that way in Louisville.

Lets be clear, you were the one that cast a negative tone on a kids decision to change schools. I consider it hypocritical since you failed to mention a sophmore player going in the opposite direction the same week. No hate, just setting the record straight.

I guess we will really see who supports public schools when the voucher system arrives. I still haven't heard from any of our BGP "public school lawyers" about the number of teachers that send their kids to private schools. I'd be willing to bet it would be embarassing.

Not open as in open to all but certainly open as in no boundries within the county. This only makes my point stronger, thanks again.

Listen to yourself, you could substitute any private school for Manual and sports for education in your post and you would sound like any poster that opposes the split. It just so happens that Manual is the envied winner in this area and your skin appears to be pretty thin.

I think Pandora's box may be opening. :lol:

It is called an analogy. And you've just made my point, thanks.

Do they spend money to market the school? Yes. Doesn't sound like they sit back and let the kids roll in to me. I wonder how many teachers in Louisville send their kids to private school? I read that in Nashville the number is 4 times the number in the general population? Interested to know if that trend exists in Louisville Metro? Or have they replaced it with their own little "private" school system like Manual. I wonder how many students at Manual have parents that work in the school system? :sssh: