You are crazy. There is NO WAY private schools are pulling from a larger student population. Lets take a vote:
How many of you will pay $8000 a year for your wrestler to go to high school?
Ok, that eliminated a bunch. Still not satisified. Johnny is a great wrestler. Please bring him to St. James. Drive right by Public HS A, Public HS B, etc. Pay the tuition provide your own transportation because private schools DO NOT have busing. At St. James freshmen are NOT allowed to drive, no exceptions so Johnny's mom or dad will have to drive out of their way or maybe on their way to work.
No pissing match, just common sense. The real advantage is that there isn't a giant bureaucracy called a school board, a superintendent, and host of wasted dollars on administrative and figure head costs. Private schools are more efficient and more common sense based than public schools.
Will,
No I am not CRAZY, I too like to take the common sense approach. What I was getting to is without private schools those kids go to their neighborhood schools. But many students' parents have the means to pursue an education at one of the private schools rather than the public schools. Can you honestly say that 100% of the attendants at St. James Academy pays 100% of their tuition? I live and teach in an area with high poverty, high rates of free and reduced students so no, 100% of our students don't pay for their "free school". I am not spited by the fact of private schools, I too relish the competition like Bill said in his post. My days at Salina South we were very competitive with Bishop Carroll and Kansas City Turner and Ark City. We had very skilled wrestlers, but we also developed them and we competed.
But for the second time I ask, explain the disproportionate amount of championships won by private schools? Is it just their time, or what?
