“Odds are” the best and most effective educators ARE the ones teaching AP. In fact, the smart families KEEP their (smart) kids at their home schools as there is far greater peer support within their friends and community. This is THE REASON why if you search for National Merit Scholars almost all NorCal schools that have a private (not charter though) in town, there are proportionally far greater numbers in the publics, and most are boundary strict. Maybe you don’t have that type of kid.
Guys....Freedom of choice is all well and good, but do you see kids transferring from one school to the other to take different language that is taught in each school, woodshop, band...I doubt it...But you do see them transferring to play football, maybe basketball and even baseball. These transfers cause a lot of problems and changes to ground level of teams that they face. If these kids want to change schools, have their parents move to that school dist.
Can’t use district boundaries unless everyone has to be regulated by them (DLS). In my opinion
You keep bringing FB into the discussion while dismissing I am ONLY discussing transfers for high academic students. What part of that do you not get?
I responded depending on their style, manner, voice, subject being taught, and other intangables. We were kids!I may be wrong but I think you’re proving his point. Institutions and educators aren’t equal. Which is why student athletes should not be punished for trying to enhance their college prospects by transferring to “institutions” that has better “educators” in their athletic department.
Truthhertz, I have found that it is not so much a teachers ability, but how the child reacts to a particular style, of that particular teacher. When I went to school ( Way Back)
I am sure you must have experienced some of this?
You are correct because although schools offer AP classes they don’t all offer the same classes so you may have to transfer to get the AP course you want.
GUYS.....This subject has been beaten to death, its running from Football away to Academics which has nothing to do with football..
Here's a relevant article that came out today. The NCS football playoffs has been turned upside down for over three decades ('91 is a HUGE outlier). Will the right decision be made? Will transfers continue to be alienated in an unfair playing field? WIll players and schools get an equal chance at progressing? Will DLS athletics continue to abuse their economic and competitive advantage over the rest of the entire NCS in 98% of the sports? We shall see! But I think we all know the answer. DLS, whoops, the NCS won't let equality take hold. There's far too much money at stake for DLS, gosh darn it, I mean the NCS... oh wait, yes, NCSDLS has too much money at stake. I mean after all, DLS offers SUUUUUCH a magnificent education and works SOOOOOO much harder in athletics than everyone else that it really shouldn't matter if the playoffs are rightfully split up equally.
GUYS''''DLS has been a powerhouse by having a fleet of kids come from all over the bay area, striping local high schools of kids that will change the out look for each school, so the only way to put a stop to this is to set up borders that DLS can draw from such as seven or eight miles in all directions. That's still a large area to draw from when you consider how much population there is in this area .
Blue dog- just read the news or watch the movie. Not “Game Stands Tall”, that’s Hollywood fiction. Knew it when the opening caption showed Coach lived in Concord when it was San Ramon for 30 years. (Sadly, the house was sold recently.) Catch “Spotlight” on Netflix/cable. The Catholic Church and Brethren subsidiaries have experienced drastic reductions in parochial school applications. Even some deLa hardnosers have lamented the evolving student body. The governing Oakland Diocese has its own current problems with a now-revealed cover up of abusive actions; the obfuscations just keep piling up and the trickle down- and litigation- has been happening for many years. dLS will never accept any limitations (nor insight) on how they determine their pool of applicants, etc. Yes, it’d be hallowed if only Catholics were accepted, or if they had the rigorous vetting of a higher level faith based institution such as Berean Christian. They’re not required by their leaders, so they do not. It’ll be tell-tale if the Fed District Court rules against Harvard and the suit brought by Asians. You can bet it’ll appeal to the SCOTUS. Harvard protects it’s brand much more deeply than some two-bit hotel owner.
And that private sector in education is what drives opposition to confront the disparity in rules and regulations that favors a conglomerate like De La Salle and it’s athletic department. Either be a private enterprise based on educational prosperity, or continue to participate in the public sector of of high school athletics and be subject to regulations that prevents competitive inequalities. Or leave things as is and leave yourself open to continued, and justifiable, ridicule.
In my opinion DLS has created the transfer monster. SoCal schools just used the mid year transfer loop hole, while DLS has built it’s monopoly on junior high school prospects. So it is all relevant. Otherwise it is hypocritical to bash/punish transfers when a school like DLS has had a thirty year head start with open boundaries.
Apples and oranges. I don’t have the same absolute hatred that you do for dls. What dls does is completely different then what SoCal football is doing. As for wrestling. I don’t care about it. But if dls did something wrong they should have to pay the price. I don’t know the circumstances of his transfer. I don’t believe he had to go to dls to win state. So something tells me there’s more to it then that. Without all the transfers at MD they don’t win a state championship.
Guys..Like it or not, if you want a balanced field, DLS must have boundaries just like school dist. a 30 year run as the champion is amazing, but at the cost of every school dist. in the area. Like one of the guys say, no business likes to be told what to do, but the green machine will keep rolling along until action is taken and DLS faces what every school dist faces...
All privates have open boundaries, not just DDOS.Same for MD,Bosch etc. And eight grade/youth football wonders don't always translate to similar status as varsity football players. MD and SJB already had open boundaries, they went one step further by taking transfers once a kid had entered has.Thereby negating the youth football phenom who didn't develop any further.Sorry, but DLS didn't cause that.
What does every school face? How have the boundaries stopped Pittsburg, Liberty and Freedom and Heritage with all their transfers the last few years?
Sure. But wouldn't you agree that schools asked to compete against each other should operate under the same exact rules? I don't care which rules they are, just make them uniform across the board. Level the playing field. Public, private, charter...I don't care. Just make it the same, rules wise. Then there are truly no more excuses.
