Hey Fry, an IHSAA update!

[Fryowa]

I don't blame them either. The difference is that they don't have the low SES kids, which eliminates 42% (state average) of what a public school would have. 24% of low SES kids participate in athletics and 32% of those participate in more than 1 sport. If 2 schools have 150 kids 9-11, privates have 150 non-SES kids, while a public school would have 87. The problem is, they would both be playing in the same class, but the playing field isn't level.

Along with that, privates also don't have to count all of their kids because of how scholarship and non-scholarship kids are counting. Getting in transfers in a public school would make their BEDS count go up, which would move them up a class. That's all people are asking for, to have the private schools play up a class or use a multiplier to bump up their BEDS to level the playing field, in terms of enrollment.

We have enough private schools for them to have their own conferences. IMO they should have a separate league and have their own separate postseason

 

[Fryowa]

Honest question, a college recruiter spots a freshman playing at a public school that is bad at any of the sports and advises the parents to send him or her to a private school, are the parents wrong to send him to a private school? Some Public High Schools in major Iowa cities have poor coaching. When was the last time a Davenport Public High School was in the football playoffs?

I wouldn’t blame them, although in my own personal case I’d never let my kid do it. The way I was raised I look at that as shitting all over the teammates and friends I’d been through so much with over the years.

We had a parent from a Christian school in our area ask my son’s mom and me if we’d ever consider enrolling him to run XC because they have a really good program that always qualifies for state as a team instead of sending a couple individual qualifiers like we do. Keep in mind this was not us being approached by a coach or anything…just a parent of one of their runners. I told my kid and he laughed his ass off and said no way in hell. Which made me proud to hear.

Maybe a sport like football would be different with say a RB playing for a bad public school who would flourish better behind the kind of OL like a Dowling or Xavier can put out there.

Like I said I’m not going to criticize another parent’s decisions, but I just know where I stand on it personally.