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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Private schools can recruit and therefore should not be in the same division as public schools
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Just make them play in the top class.
Is that 5A in PA?
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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We are now all dumber for having read your statement
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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.
Re: "Shame on them for offering a better ed & religion that athlete's parents would want for their kid!"
How very true. I have coached at a private catholic school for 17 years and how many times have I heard "You stole our girls from us" from fans, coaches and administrators. Couldn't be because a parent may want their child to receive religious instruction, often times a safer environment and possibly what the parents, rightly or wrongly, see as a better educational experience. In my 17 years we have not once recruited a player to come to our program. First day of practice whoever walked through the gym doors was who we had. And managed to win a number of District Championships doing it that way.How many times have the local high school programs gone to players in the catholic grade schools, normally the strongest grade school programs in our area, to recruit a player to come play for their "home town" team.
My problem with the supposed solution will put a program like ours in with all the private schools and academies which do recruit just because we are a private school. That will leave us left with a choice: Never be competitive or go out and recruit so we can be competitive. I know there are many other private school across the state which will face the same choice.
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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I’m pi$$ed Rehoski’s in Duryea also closed along with Komensky’s
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Did not know that, where are you getting kielbasa?
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Either Tarnowski’s in Nanticoke or Leonard’s Meat Market, Wilkes-Barre; both are very good!
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A friend got me some from Jerry and Son Market in Nanticoke.
It was good.
Kowalonek's (Shenandoah) #1 in the USA. All of the top Polka bands sing it's praises!
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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.
Re: Generally speaking, unless the publics have open enrollment, the school has restricted boundaries.
IMHO: I think it's also a common type of thinking with politicians & taxes - they actually BELIEVE it's THEIR money! The superintendent is upset that the parents have the audacity to want their children to go somewhere else besides their underperforming, probably get shanked in the hall before noon, where administrators salaries go up while the test scores go down, holding pens for many future felons. My parents worked 2 jobs to put 7 of us through Catholic schools. When I lost a very good job and had to get another less paying job, we chose to give up the house payment and move in with family to afford to keep our kids in Catholic school. Most kids by and large, in most public schools (not all), don't really excel - there's no incentive to - everyone gets a diploma - even if they can't read their name on it.
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