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Good call. It will likely be bad in the stands. The end zones will be packed! SunCalc - sun position, sunlight phases, sunrise, sunset, dusk and dawn times calculator

decisions, decisions, decisions so many games and so little time.

Brings new meaning to a tough road to the finals

Reports of some fans drinking in the stands.

Ran up the score?

This isn't the same highlands team we were hearing about most of the season. Seems like they figured it out. I'm going with highlands by

CovCath v highlands

That's what I was thinking by the original statement about more home schooled kids in Jefferson county. I was questioning whether that is because a kid can't keep grades at the high school, but mom/dad can home school and suddenly they have the grades. (academic fraud the right term?) So if I had to home school my son to keep him eligible to play basketball, what would be the point? Meaning if I'm fudging the home grades, he isn't getting into college. Is Jefferson county an open district?

Understand that home school kids can get into college. But why would this bill change the # of home schooled kids in jefferson county?

So why wouldn't they just go to that school if they have an open district? Home school due to academic eligibility? What's the point if they can't get into college anyway?

SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 158 IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: (1) A student enrolled in a nonpublic school, including a home school, is eligible to participate in an interscholastic extracurricular activity sponsored by or engaged in by the public school to which the student would be assigned according to district school board attendance policies or which the student could choose to attend pursuant to district open enrollment provisions, only if the nonpublic school does not offer the interscholastic extracurricular activity. A student eligible under this section who is selected to participate in an interscholastic extracurricular activity shall: (e) Comply with the same physical examination, immunization, insurance, age, and semester eligibility requirements as other students participating in the activity. -Negates the anti-immunization reason for home schooling

I'm not for the bill, but as I've read it several times, it doesn't seem to be most of the end of the world scenarios that have been brought up in the thread. If anything I'd think there would be smaller private schools that would like it. It is pretty limited. The student must be in non-public school or home schooled. The private school can't have the extracurricular activity. IF the school district that they actually live in has it, they can participate at that public school. Can't see where it would impact a school like CovCath - where a non-CovCath student wanted to play there. i.e. a home schooled kid couldn't tryout for their basketball team. It COULD benefit a CovCath student wanted to join an archery team, that doesn't exist at CovCath. AND they live in Ft Mitchell, AND Beechwood has an archery team. I'm thinking a school like Calvary Christian. No Football. No Swimming. If a kid there wanted to play football they could play at the public school in their district. Assume they live in Taylor Mill. This student could play for Scott, or any of the Kenton Co schools in the open enrollment. But that student couldn't say I want to play at CovCath or Highlands. I still don't like it - except for cases like the wheelchair bound archery enthusiast example mentioned above somewhere. Home schooling or attending a particular private school is a choice. Factor in everything in the choice and live with it. Life isn't always a buffet where you can pick only the things you like. Sometimes the menu says "no substitutions". That's just the way it is.

The private school isn't in a district. The students attending a private school all live within public school districts.

They are some big ole boys, but that didn't translate into much. Defenses seemed to get around them fairly easily.

That seems to be the scenario that the bill addresses specifically. If CovCath doesn't have an archery team, and Dixie (where my kid lives) does, they could join that team... The way it is written... It doesn't say anything about what if your district doesn't have it, regardless of private or home schooled.

Paying taxes in a district gives you the right to go to the school. Going to the school gives you the opportunity to play sports there. So would every parent sending their kids to private school also get the tax break since they don't send their kid to school in the district? Or the senior citizens next door that don't even have grandkids in the district, shouldn't they get a tax break too?

I just read the bill and it doesn't sound like the CovCath scenario applies. It says they can play for the public school for the district in which they reside. So a kid that goes to CovCath or is home schooled, and doesn't have a blah blah team could play blah blah for Dixie since that's where they leave. But nothing that I read in the bill gives them any rights to doing anything at CovCath if they are home schooled.

Seems like a pretty STUPID idea to me. The teams are SCHOOL TEAMS, comprised of students OF THE SCHOOL. A home schooled kid is not part of that school community, family, student body, or whatever you want to call it. If your kids want's to play a sport, there are rec leagues, select, aau or whatever. If that is not good enough, then you have a decision to make. Send your kid to school and play sports, or don't. Seems pretty simple. Now, there can be some sort of exception or special circumstances. I'm not sure if an action out of Frankfort is needed (because those always turn out well) or required. I would have thought that it could be something KHSAA could handle as a matter of eligibility. i.e. the above referenced wheelchair bound student. The comment states that they are receiving assistance from the school. So in this case, it would appear that home schooling was not necessarily a personal choice, but one dictated wholly or substantially based on the physical ability/inability to attend class on campus. Depending on the "assistance" being provided by the school, one could argue that the individual is a student of the school and eligible for the archery team. I don't understand the private school arguments on here though. Did I miss something in here somewhere that said a home schooled kid could pick which school, to include a private school like CovCath? Or was that commentary because the bill was written so poorly that a loop hole exists that could be exploited in some way? I mean there is no explicit or implied right of anyone to attend our school, let alone play a sport for it. Public schools don't have that same argument.

Explain what? That it doesn't surprise me that Conway would pull shady crap like that? Or that it doesn't surprise me that the media couldn't care less when any politician on the left says or does something stupid, unethical, or illegal?

NO DOUBT! My girls started doing it at 5 & 6 yrs old back in the early 2000's. Competitions were like auditions to get into a grades 1-12 stripper academy. Some of these competition squads are phenomenal. More athletic than some other sports teams - boys and girls. They also have their own brand of extreme crazy! Isn't Texas where there is something happen every year around this stuff? A mom paying someone to "hurt" another girl on the squad to get a spot for her daughter type of thing?

Was thinking exactly the same thing earlier. The actions of the professors - (who should be fired and investigated by the police if the student was touched) - their actions invalidate the protest. Regardless of what the protest was about. It's the basic pattern of protesters, particularly on the left. "We can do or say whatever we want. The rules don't apply to us. Agree with us or you are wrong". The next story will be about the protesters demanding that they get A's for all the assignments that they missed because they skipped class.

The cheer MOMs are hilarious to watch. But really, they are not any more or less freaking nuts than many football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or softball parents out there! Every sport has it's nut jobs. Reading this, it isn't a school cheer squad. It's a private club competition team. The requirements should have been spelled out in advance.

There is nothing surprising in the article or that the media doesn't care.

Why JUCO? Although, I guess if you can get a free ride someplace, you should take it.

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