PA public school superintendent goes to Legislators crying about "Private Schools Advantages"! If
you can't beat them - Bar them! Private schools (mostly Catholic) won 4 of the 6 division State Championships in football and basketball in Pennsylvania this year. Old Forge got their butt handed to them last week in the division 2 championship game. Sooo their Super has run to his state legislator asking for a bill to ban all private schools from PIAA competition. He has rounded up a posse of other supers to do the same in their districts. You have to wonder if the old anti Catholic sentiments that Notre Dame faced 100 years ago still exists today?
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Is it talent or that private schools can impose discipline? A trend in a number of states
Along with splitting private and public leagues and playoffs.
simple: private schools educate; public schools indoctrinate.
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Why doesn't he just go poach better players from other schools--it's America.
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"Shame on them for offering a better ed & religion that athlete's parents would want for their kid!"
I suspect that this superintendent also considers the kids at any private school from his public school district as "his kids", and feels that they were "stolen" from his schools.
If it was 1926, I’d say it’d be anti-catholic sentiment….I live in Pittston, PA (near Old Forge)
them just like many of the public schools in NEPA are having their premier athletes (both boys & girls) poached by the private schools. Wyoming Seminary, which is near me as well, is the ultimate WASP private schools; they been poaching from the public schools for years, especially in boys wrestling.
It's not "poaching" ...the kids never belonged to the public school.
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I'm still pissed that Komensky's closed.
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Generally speaking, unless the publics have open enrollment, the school has restricted boundaries.
Out of that limited number of quality athletes, all it takes is a couple of difference makers to transfer out to Catholic, if the parents can afford it. In HS, all it takes is gaining or losing a couple of playmakers to make or break a season. This has been an issue in my state as long as I can remember. Most of the Catholic programs play in the lower classes so it can and does compete in state title games regularly. Now, in Indy, there is open enrollment within the city so transfers and accusations of recruiting among publics happen every year.
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