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I don't follow you. You want schools with no boundaries. How do you do that? Wouldn't it be like musical chairs? Like 2004: North 800 South 800 East 800 Then 2005: (100 students from North leave and 50 go to South, 50 to East) North 700 South 850 East 850 Then what happens in 2006 if only 500 want to go to North... and South and East can only handle 900 students?

What about Girls that play soccer? They have nothing to do with football but do not have a team.

Well obviously a school could have 50 students enroll, while a school 3 miles away is trying to fit 750 kids into a school that holds 400. If you mean that after Boone Co. has enrolled all the students that reside in its district and they decide they can handle 60 more students then kids from Ryle, Conner, Lloyd, Scott have a shot at those 60 spots then that's different.

But Boys do not play volleyball so the number of Sports stay equal. Now you could argue that there are greater numbers of Boys playing Football than Girls playing Volleyball but that probably isn't true at say Bellevue and because volleyball cuts.

If you offer both Sports in a same sex sport how could it be a Title IX violation? I believe Bellevue has Boys and Girls track teams, Boys Baseball and Girls softball, Boys ans Girls basketball teams, Boys Football and Girls Volleyball. Now the also have Girls soccer but no Boys.

Since there is much chatter about schools never having a "fair" chance to be champions should the KHSAA mandate that all Public schools be required to offer a KHSAA sport provided there is enough interest among the student population at that school. For example Walton-Verona does not field a Football team. Should they be required to if say 40 Boys express an interest? For example Bellevue fields a Girls Soccer team but does not have a Boys Soccer team. Should they be required to field a Boys team if 20 Boys express an interest?

Man, that's like major keystrokes. :banana:

How about this too? 1. Help/facilitate/mandate that ALL public schools offer a KHSAA sport as long as there is enough interest to field a team and it is financially feasible. That means Boys and Girls Soccer teams, Boys and Girls Track teams etc. It is amazing that in a public school Girls can have a soccer team, but Boys in the same school cannot. 2. Classify ALL sports uniformly. Why are there 4 football classes, 1 basketball class, 1 volleyball class, 3 track classes?

I may be a little off here but wouldn't Lexington Catholic's and/or Lex. Christian's boundaries be pretty large??? What is the nearest Catholic high school to Lexington Catholic in all North, South, East, West directions? Plus would public independent school districts have to define boundaries too and not except students from other areas?

How can this be in the USA? So you want to set up private school districts by what public school district they reside in? So if I live Taylor Mill do I have to go to Scott or Calvery Christian? I can't go to Holy Cross? What if I live in Latonia? Can I go to Holmes or Holy Cross but I can't go to Calvery or Latin school? Yeah that would work.

Well you would be tempted to say "country-club sports" (tennis, golf, swimming) are dominated by private schools. However, most private schools in NKY don't even offer swimming and more public schools do.

Where do you move to ..........Russia? What if you live in Southgate? Right now you can go to Highlands, Newport, Campbell County, Dayton, Bellevue, any private school. So if my house is in Southgate I can do that, but if you live next door to me in Newport you have two choices and the guy across the street in Fort Thomas has one? Nyet!

This info is from the article: "But consider that since 1994, public schools have won 234 state team championships and private schools 185. If you factor in that there are 234 public schools - or five times as many public schools as there are private schools - it's obvious the private schools have an edge. A private school has won every boys state swimming championship since 1994 and the girls have won 10 of 11. In soccer, private schools have seven boys titles to four for public schools. In tennis, it's nine boys titles for private schools and two for the public schools. Same with cross country where the private schools have 16 boys titles to 14 for the public schools. Some numbers still weigh heavily with the public schools. In football, public schools have 34 state titles to 10 for the private schools. In boys basketball, it's 10-1 for the public schools" So I guess we can conclude a few things: 1. Private schools have no clue whatsoever about how to recruit, coach, and assemble a Boys basketball team. 2. Public schools just can't find any good swimmers in their schools. Must all be on the football teams winning championships. 3. Private schools must hide in the bushes and scour the parks to find all those Tennis players.

How? If you are a Catholic kid in Boone Co. and you want to go to an all-boys school and play football because your Dad went there (or if you are a girl and want to go to ND) why shouldn't you? Now if you are a Catholic family living in Boone Co. and you have no ties to CovCath and your kid would like to go to St. Henry if they added football then why shouldn't you? And how does districts effect kids that have their school closed or merged and they decide to go to a public school?

I don't see where it has connection whatsoever.

What happens if 10 years from now St. Henry has a football team and CovCath's enrollment declines. What happens if 10 years from now the diocese merges Brossart and NCC and many of the NCC Fort Thomas kids decide to attend Highlands instead? If Highlands then dominates CovCath at an unheard of level is it proof that public schools have an advantage over private schools? Lots of what ifs don't you think?

I am not 100% sure of this but I believe that each school contributes to its own financial aid fund. That is not to say if school A only raises $5000 and school B raises $50,000, there could be some help from the Diocese dedicated to school A's fund. I don't know. In NKY some Catholic high schools are directed by the Diocese to charge the lowest amount of tuition possible because of the geographical and economic areas in which they reside.

I believe it is directly tied to the school that the student would attend and the amount of money "in the pot" for that school. So a student going to say Notre Dame might receive $2000 of the over $6000 tuition and a student going to Holy Cross might receive $1800 of the $4200 tutition. I assume that if the funds are running low that a student might get less in some years than others.

I can't answer all of your questions but I'll tell you what I think I know. Catholic school students can receive reduced lunch monies/reimbursement and I will assume there is not a tie-in to state testing since there is none. As for Financial Aid funding. The schools themselves provide the funds through things like endowments, fund raisers, alumni donations, other donations etc. So if school A has $100,000 this year to give and 75 students apply for financial aid, the agency deciding knows the numbers they have to work with. There is no tie in with attendance if I understand what you are asking. In other words, a student doen't have to be there 95% of the days to get your $2000 financial aid, or the school does not receive so much per day based on the student's attendance.

You would be wrong in that assumption. At almost all Catholic schools financial aid is decided by a "clearinghouse" out of state where information is submitted. Information like family income and size of household and ages of children. No names are used, no activities noted. So basically a family is assigned a number and a formula is applied to their statistics by the agency. Most schools allow up to 50% of tuition cost in financial aid and the majority of cases do not receive 50%. So if tuition is $6000 then a student could receive up to $3000 or less if they qualify.

Sure. 95% of students in the state of KY (likely 99.9%) have basically no chance of becoming President of the United States. They don't have the money, opportunities, connections etc. They might be the hardest working political science students, the hardest working politicans, the most caring elected official ever, and they are not going to be President. But there is no law or rule that says it can't happen. 90%-95% of the students in the state of KY might never have a legit chance at a state championship in basketball or volleyball. Doesn't stop them from trying as hard as they can. If you think about it, some students in KY schools have 0% chance of being a soccer or swimming or football champion because it is not even offered at their school. Is it fair that you could be the best soccer player in your county and not have a team at your school?

You know I would agree with statement if it came from a public school that was clearly superior to all the other public schools .........and it still wasn't enough. Let's say Male wins every one of their football games ever year except against X and/or Trinity when they get beat by 20 or more points everytime. Then I could agree that no matter what they do it just isn't going to be enough. But until the "best" public school in each sport declares that I do not see what splitting out private versus public schools will accomplish. Sure there are some public schools that for a variety of reasons can work as hard as they want and they are not going to have a chance. But hey there are also some private schools that can work as hard as possible and they are going to encounter the same result.

If private schools are not allowed to compete for a state championship in football I believe you would see the GCL South (Moeller, Elder, St. X, LaSalle) extend an immediate invitation to Trinity and St.X to join.

What certain incentives?

What certain incentives?