Post by greenman on Oct 11, 2017 2:25:21 GMT -5
No one implied private schools don't recruit, but being private, they're allowed to do so. That's part of not being part of the taxpayer-subsidized system that means it's nearly impossible for a public school system to become so insolvent that it closes. Also, every website I've visited for private schools offers many avenues for financial aid, be it need-based or scholarships (including athletic ones, as they come right out and say). but please, go ahead and keep believing that it's some dastardly, underhanded system that keeps the publics down. Right.
No one ever demanded you say "All hail the private schools," either. Let's not forget who started this whole thread with envious whining, with implications and opinions based in self-admitted ignorance. You could have started a playoff thread with literally anything else, but chose to advertise your shortcomings. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
As for a "new system," you admit you've no idea how it would work, but you still want to see it happen. Not only are you envious, but you're about as useful to your spoken cause as tits on a boar. Do you honestly think that if public ADs and administrators would truly back, statewide, a separated public/private playoff, that it wouldn't happen? As government institutions, you don't believe that the OHSAA and the state gov't. would listen to them if they truly raised Hell about it?
What does the AD at your kids' school have to say about? Has he or she publicly voiced this view?
If not, whether he or she feels the way you do or not, your kids' AD is smart to keep it quiet. Public school admins know the score when it comes to test scores; Ohio privates in general perform at the same level as Ohio publics or better. In fact, only the wealthy suburbs and the most effective schools can compete with any private schools and most of the parochial schools. The public schools coming together in grievance against the athletic aspect of the private schools would, to many people, be a further sign of the weakness of Ohio's public schools. Athletics are a kid-magnet for schools public and private. Admins at Ohio publics know that, and know that asking to be separated from the privates in that way would be asking to be left behind.
By your own admission, privates dominate the playoffs (this is true in recent years in football - it doesn't hold across the board if you actually did your homework, but ok). If the public schools demand a separate playoff, and get their way, who looks like the whining, underachieving stepchild? The public schools, of course.
I don't have anything against public schools - I went to one K-12. I work at them, and love my job. I do have a problem when someone whines about how unfair everything is, on behalf of a system that can coerce unearned tax dollars and mandatory attendance out of people based on their zip code, against a system that has to sell themselves part and parcel to every prospective student, and that only get windfalls in the form of appreciative alums who make it big. What cowardice.
Also, I laughed when I noticed that last jab about me "having such an impact" on the people with whom I went to school. Do you think it bothers me? Sorry, sbc, some of us had, and still have, much broader horizons.
Envious, ignorant, and clannish is no way to go through life.
No one ever demanded you say "All hail the private schools," either. Let's not forget who started this whole thread with envious whining, with implications and opinions based in self-admitted ignorance. You could have started a playoff thread with literally anything else, but chose to advertise your shortcomings. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
As for a "new system," you admit you've no idea how it would work, but you still want to see it happen. Not only are you envious, but you're about as useful to your spoken cause as tits on a boar. Do you honestly think that if public ADs and administrators would truly back, statewide, a separated public/private playoff, that it wouldn't happen? As government institutions, you don't believe that the OHSAA and the state gov't. would listen to them if they truly raised Hell about it?
What does the AD at your kids' school have to say about? Has he or she publicly voiced this view?
If not, whether he or she feels the way you do or not, your kids' AD is smart to keep it quiet. Public school admins know the score when it comes to test scores; Ohio privates in general perform at the same level as Ohio publics or better. In fact, only the wealthy suburbs and the most effective schools can compete with any private schools and most of the parochial schools. The public schools coming together in grievance against the athletic aspect of the private schools would, to many people, be a further sign of the weakness of Ohio's public schools. Athletics are a kid-magnet for schools public and private. Admins at Ohio publics know that, and know that asking to be separated from the privates in that way would be asking to be left behind.
By your own admission, privates dominate the playoffs (this is true in recent years in football - it doesn't hold across the board if you actually did your homework, but ok). If the public schools demand a separate playoff, and get their way, who looks like the whining, underachieving stepchild? The public schools, of course.
I don't have anything against public schools - I went to one K-12. I work at them, and love my job. I do have a problem when someone whines about how unfair everything is, on behalf of a system that can coerce unearned tax dollars and mandatory attendance out of people based on their zip code, against a system that has to sell themselves part and parcel to every prospective student, and that only get windfalls in the form of appreciative alums who make it big. What cowardice.
Also, I laughed when I noticed that last jab about me "having such an impact" on the people with whom I went to school. Do you think it bothers me? Sorry, sbc, some of us had, and still have, much broader horizons.
Envious, ignorant, and clannish is no way to go through life.