JumpinJack5
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Article from the Enquirer:http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20130331/SPT/303310081/
I get it, the public schools are tired of having to play the private schools because they draw from more areas. But this is downright dumb-you are screwing over schools like McNick, Purcell, Roger Bacon, and Badin, and it doesn't do anything to Moeller or St. x. Roger Bacon, as it says in the article, can no longer rely on St. Bernard to get all their kids. We are an inter-city school, if we want to survive, we need a few kids from all over to survive. We don't get players from Florida like Summit does, but we get a lot of players from Winton Woods/Greenhills, but it is logical, because their grandparents and parents would take the streetcar down to Bacon when there was a streetcar. Thus, it has become tradition in those areas to go to Bacon and it probably makes up 50% of the school. If they go by school districts, we will be a D1 team. That's like asking NKU to play in the ACC. Teams like Moeller and St. X also get kids from lots of districts, but they are already D1, so it does nothing to them. Plus, the public schools whine too much about cheating. Look at the Walnut Basketball team this year-a kid from Columbus, a kid who had been to 3 different HS, etc. magically transfer in for 1 year. Cheating is widespread, and public schools already have an unfair advantage, kids that transfer in from private schools don't have to sit out, whereas the other way around, they do have to sit out. They need a better solution than what they proposed, that's for sure.
Sorry, My rant for the Day.
I get it, the public schools are tired of having to play the private schools because they draw from more areas. But this is downright dumb-you are screwing over schools like McNick, Purcell, Roger Bacon, and Badin, and it doesn't do anything to Moeller or St. x. Roger Bacon, as it says in the article, can no longer rely on St. Bernard to get all their kids. We are an inter-city school, if we want to survive, we need a few kids from all over to survive. We don't get players from Florida like Summit does, but we get a lot of players from Winton Woods/Greenhills, but it is logical, because their grandparents and parents would take the streetcar down to Bacon when there was a streetcar. Thus, it has become tradition in those areas to go to Bacon and it probably makes up 50% of the school. If they go by school districts, we will be a D1 team. That's like asking NKU to play in the ACC. Teams like Moeller and St. X also get kids from lots of districts, but they are already D1, so it does nothing to them. Plus, the public schools whine too much about cheating. Look at the Walnut Basketball team this year-a kid from Columbus, a kid who had been to 3 different HS, etc. magically transfer in for 1 year. Cheating is widespread, and public schools already have an unfair advantage, kids that transfer in from private schools don't have to sit out, whereas the other way around, they do have to sit out. They need a better solution than what they proposed, that's for sure.
Sorry, My rant for the Day.
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