New PIAA Classification Ranges Posted

[CCDevil2012]

NOT ok for a parent to continue to pay school taxes to their home district AND pay to send their kids to a private school that offers better academics and athletics?  The hypocrisy on here is emabarrasing...

Wait, why would athletics be better? Didn't you just say all schools have equal opportunity to athletes and kids can go wherever they want? You're right, the hypocrisy is embarrassing  

[DCor50]

I wonder where the schools that were border line 2 years ago will fall.

[deepcreek]

in AA West Shamokin, Chestnut Ridge, and Ligonier were all close.   Should be interesting

[DCor50]

True and in Single A, United and Blairsville were close. When will everything come out?

[Realityhits02]

NOT ok for a parent to continue to pay school taxes to their home district AND pay to send their kids to a private school that offers better academics and athletics?  The hypocrisy on here is emabarrasing...

Wait, why would athletics be better? Didn't you just say all schools have equal opportunity to athletes and kids can go wherever they want? You're right, the hypocrisy is embarrassing  

Umm..I don’t know? Why are athletics better at Forest Hills then CV? Why are academics better at one school vs another? That question makes zero sense. Yes, everyone does have an equal opportunity to make their “product” ie School better to attract people to move there and pay taxes...but not everyone does. So, yes, they can go wherever they want-either by moving, paying or changing address. 

[Realityhits02]

NOT ok for a parent to continue to pay school taxes to their home district AND pay to send their kids to a private school that offers better academics and athletics?  The hypocrisy on here is emabarrasing...

Wait, why would athletics be better? Didn't you just say all schools have equal opportunity to athletes and kids can go wherever they want? You're right, the hypocrisy is embarrassing  

And the hypocrisy is that people see nothing wrong with a kid moving from one Public school district to another for better academics and athletics then the district they are in but cry when it happens with a private school

[CCDevil2012]

You said parents pay for better athletics, why are the athletics better? Shouldn't they be equivalent to public schools? The only reason they are better is because of parents sending their kids there, it's not the other way around. And can you prove that the kid even left Ferndale or is it another rumor? Or why he left? It's not like the kid is driving from Roaring Spring or having a van pick him up in Bedford 

[CCDevil2012]

Central Cambria had a fb player move before the beginning of the year because his parents got a new job. He didn't leave to go to McCort because they had a better team and his parents were willing to "pay for better athletics". That's why there is no outrage

[jaxcar]

I think we can all agree that transfers happen in both public and private schools, and yes there is more of an outrage when it happens with a private school, people move all the time for whatever reason, academics, athletics, jobs, issues within the school itself, whatever the reason maybe, but I think the one thing that we all miss in this whole debate is this...we need to start classifying schools as either boundry or non-boundry and in my opinion this is where the discrepency comes in. When you have a school like a BG which by its enrollment is Class A but has no boundries like the public schools it competes against in the playoffs but sits in Altoona school district, which is 6A by enrollment and the city itself has a population of probably 45,000 to 50,000 people now comapre that to lets say, Portage, Homer City, Clymer (Penns Manor), and other Class A schools whose population is probably on average 2,000 to 3,000, if that in some cases. This is a bigger issue than the transfers and recruiting. How does a school be considered class A when it can pull from a population that is anywhere from 5 to 10 times if not more the size of others in it's same class, this does not include the surrounding public school districts where students might reside but attend private school. My solution would be that if the non-boundry schools enrollment is not equal to or greater than that of the public school district it is located in then they would be classified as half of what the public school is, and round up for the odd numbers (5A would be 3A and 3A would be 2A). Because as earlier posts mentioned BG probably would have won at the very least 1 or 2 state titles playing at 3A or would have at the very least been very competitive in playoffs and at the end of the day not everyone is ever going to be happy there's always going to be someone with a gripe for whatever their reason is.

[lilIndian91]

So are you saying that StJoes and BC are a display of this great advantage?

 Over the last 19 years, between A and AA, the ''3 Bishops'' of the LHAC have combined for 15 D6 title WINS. 

Well let's just make it an even 20 year sample size

Tyrone, Forest Hills, and Bellwood have won 16 District Titles since 1997
Bishop McCort, Bishop Carroll, and BG have won 15 District Titles since 1997

Make the sample any size you want. Still just 3 Bishops. How many publics in the sample to water down your point?