Bishop Carroll Status

[jack daniel]

I don't understand peole coming on here and saying just athletes get financial aid thats so wrong.

Even though people will argue it you couldn't be more right. EVERYONE gets financial aid, contrary to the popular belief just athletes do. But people should be ridiculed for going to the school of their choice, and shouldn't be allowed to go to the school of their choice according to a lot of folks on here. Well that is of course unless the school of their choice is a public school.

[El-Moldo]

People shouldn't be allowed to go to the school of their choice? The problem here is, that people who are student-athletes want to go to the school of their choice RIGHT BEFORE they get to 11th or 12th grade. It's at this point when alot of them are starting to make their mark in local sports. So they see a BENEFIT (for themselves) in playing for winning teams. Administrators at private schools very seldom if ever refuse to take in good athletes for a year or two. And now BM has come up with a brilliant way to get good 9th graders into their system via the Lift Scholarships. Tell me, don't these student-athletes get full rides almost?

[jack daniel]

How much financial help a person gets varies on a few things. Grades, family income, or rather or not both parents are in the picture to name a few. It has NOTHING to do with rather or not you play a sport. I had friends in high school, that did not play a sport, and paid less to go to BM then people who did play sports. There are many factors that go into how much financial help you get at BM, none of which are rather or not your an athlete. Sorry Moldy.

[El-Moldo]

What's there to be sorry about? You got 20 new freshmen coming in each and every year practically on full scholarships, several of which will make an impact on the sport's scene at McCort in the years to come. You got non-Catholics who play sports at BM who get sizeable tuition reductions. You got student-athletes who did not attend parochial schools until 11th or 12th grades who get sizeable tuition reductions at BM. Sounds to me like an enticement to get kids into the BM sports scene. What else do you want me to say? And as far as student-athletes picking out schools they wish to attend, can you imagine the chaos in college sports if students could just switch schools on a whim with NO penalty? That's what we are seeing in high school sports in the name of "kids should be allowed to attend the school of their choice". It hurts the system of inter-scholastic athletics in Pennsylvania. Kids switching sports teams under the guize of "kids should be able to attend any school the wish" is detremental to the integity of our local sports. Until this is questioned, unfair advantages will surface on the playing field, tipped in favor of the private schools.

[sportsdoc]

[quote="El-Moldo"]Until this is questioned, unfair advantages will surface on the playing field, tipped in favor of the private schools.

Amen

[sheldoncooper]

my favorite are those that transfer in senior high and insist that it is for academic [of course otherwise it would be against the rules] reasons. if it is truely for academic reasons then I don't see why it is not a problem to have those transfers sit out athletics for a year

[say_oww]

I am still waiting for empirical evidence that "private school education is better than public school education".

[richaboli]

I am still waiting for empirical evidence that "private school education is better than public school education".

Put your thinking cap on.
Intangible circumstances.
That is like asking whether brown hair wives are better than blond hair wives. There's too much of a difference in wives, too much of a difference in husbands.
Every public school is different, every private school is different, and some children do better in private schools and some children do better in public schools. Each and every circumstance is different.

[jack daniel]

Until this is questioned, unfair advantages will surface on the playing field, tipped in favor of the private schools.

Amen

Also Moldy, I went to school with some non-Catholic non-athletes who got good financial help at McCort. Were a big family who'll take anyone.

And richaboli, i prefer brunettes. Just saying.

[abpk2903]

I really don't know which education system is better nor do I care. There are plenty of good athletic programs in the area in both the public and private schools. There are plenty of bad athletic programs in the area from both public and private schools. Really the only opinion I have is most of the private school people I have ran into later in life (college and now the workforce) tend to be tool bags and have a feeling of some type of entitlement due to having a private education. I was always under the impression that why pay for something that isn't better than what you are getting for free. I am not a fan of private schools not due to the education or the athletic aspects but for whatever entitlement that most of privately educated people display.