McCort '09 Recruiting Class

[Zeitgeist]

You mean the smartest people in the world ( McCort alumni and students ) need a full-page ad in the Tribune to show them McCort's schedule?

Yeah, sure, why not? If Richland, Westmont, or Johnstown had placed the ad in the paper would you be in less of an uproar? Obviously. McCort didn't do anything against the rules. Get over it.

[El-Moldo]

Yes, but can an ad like this help LURE kids to Richland, Westmont, or Johnstown without their families moving into another school district?

[once a runner]

Vman, you've been making this ridiculous claim about FH fudging their numbers many times. I know you will never reveal your sources on this, but if you would be so kind to ask your reliable sources how FH was able to do this? Attendance is taken by teachers every day and turned into the office. Those numbers are turned in to the state. These numbers are available to the public as well. Certainly someone with half a brain would notice that they numbers from the state did not match those from the PIAA. So, if you could, please explain how this master plan was pulled off.

[philip's dad]

Crimson your response to me was well taken. I can understand your position. Thanks for your homesty. All "we" as public school people get upset with is that the rules are not the same for both systems. It would be nice if the playing fields were leveled.

[Zeitgeist]

I don't see why an ad like that can't work. Students would have to pay tuition the same as their private school counterparts.

School District Tuition Rates 08-09
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/school_acct/ ... 809use.pdf

Westmont's policy on eligibility in regards to non-resident students
http://www.psba.org/districts_policies/ ... HIL202.pdf

While it seems to be that it costs vary between around $5,000 to $15,000, the possibility nonetheless exists. Do I see it happening as often as kids transfer from public to private? Hardly. But the fact that it CAN be done is interesting. If I wanted my kid, for some strange reason, go to Westmont instead of Ferndale, I could do it at the cost of paying for their education. Would my child then be pegged as a "recruit" if I made that decision? Possibly. Would I care? Not at all.

[El-Moldo]

Ah, but a move from public to public would be INVESTIGATED. And that's the rub.

[wickedcrossover]

Ahh finally someone researched what I had posted a while back. Thank you, Zeitgeist. Any student from any district can go to another school in a diferent district without moving to that district as long as they follow the RULES in place and they pay TUITION (sound familiar). It is a fact that someone from Richland that wants to play a sport at Johnstown can go to Johnstown as long as they follow the RULES of transferring and pay TUITION. There does not have to be a any specific reason.

El-Moldo, you are correct, there probably would be an investigation to make sure that the transfer was done properly and within the RULES. Don't you think that all of the kids that transferred to McCort had to do so within the rules? Come on, even you, in all your glorious prejudice, can realize the implications McCort would be suffering if transfers were not done accordingly. Please be aware though; the parents still have to pay taxes to the school district where they reside.

So now tell me, why would a go to player, one who has a chance to put up big numbers,at his school want to transfer to another school? In addition if that player has the option to pick among various schools, why would that individual choose a school where you have to take religion and wear a tie? My point is that although sports might be an important reason for transferring, it is one of a multiple number of reasons to transfer. If McCort had the strongest sports team in the nation, but offered inferior education and a total lack of dicipline and no religion (Please, outside of religion, I am not implying that most public schools don't provide these benfits), would you transfer your child to McCort? I would hope not

One more question: Although McCort has benfitted from some good transfers, how many were truly impact players?

El-Moldo, I know, we're not talking about the individual but about the fairness! Well, it seems to me that if you a parent wants to pay tuition, they have more options than McCort.

[El-Moldo]

Look at the Julock case. Kids who transfer TO public schools, especially those who would transfer from one district and PAY a tuition to attend another, are ALWAYS questioned and investigated for improprieties. When public kids enroll in parochial schools, NO QUESTIONS ARE ASKED. So Salem will continue to allow veteran high school athletes to enroll at McCort as UPPERCLASSMEN, since their motives are not challenged.

[tubmill]

The private school people are retarded. They continue to take kids in to their sysem to make more people want to come to their school. They say that they have a better academic program yet they have no proof! Almost all of the students that come to those schools go for athletic reasons.

[Zeitgeist]

The private school people are retarded. They continue to take kids in to their system to make more people want to come to their school. They say that they have a better academic program yet they have no proof! Almost all of the students that come to those schools go for athletic reasons.

Taking people into your school doesn't MAKE people want to go there. That's like saying you can make me jump out of an airplane. But you can't make me do anything. They don't HAVE to go there, they have to CHOOSE under their own volition. What about the kids that don't play sports but still attend a private school?

You don't even play Carroll, Guilfoyle, or McCort until the playoffs. Still sore from the Ram's 31-6 showing against the Crushers last year? Get over it man. If by some miraculous turn of events they had moved on to play Bellwood-Antis, Hayes and the Blue Devils would have beaten them up and down Memorial Field.

*Never said private schools have better academics.
**Not mentally challenged.