Christiana forfeits to StG's
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Save themselves from getting destroyed
Better question is when is the blue hen conference going to re align so these games go away.
Better question is when is the blue hen conference going to re align so these games go away.
Not true about grades. Report cards haven't been issued. They only have 15 or 16 players in their program. A few were injured last week. They may only have 11 or 12 healthy players and a few of them are not varsity ready.
The fact there are only 15 to 16 eligible to initially to start year has allot to do with grades.. I think DE needs to consolidate some schools.. not so much from an area standpoint as IMO from a a failed school choice program.. Just speaking about the public schools.. Certain schools have all but been abandoned by the parents due to school choice (although MT P has made a comeback in my opinion)
Athletically speaking D1 schools benefit from school choice and D2 have suffered (other than the Techs) Schools choice or vouchers are a decent idea for inner cities but statewide not so much.. What parent in Christiana HS school district who has a kid serious about playing ball is going to send them there? None...
DE would be well served to go back to districting and combining some schools Some in the North and South need to combine... JMHO Not sure how school choice came about but it must have been a time when there were some crappy schools and kids had to be given an option to get out.. I get that.. but now they have options with the Charters, Techs and Privates.. No need for Public school choice.
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Nobody uses school choice for athletics.... It is in the rules that you can't.
Actually I am trying to have a serious conversation and am interested in folks opinions of the long term effects of the School Choice program.. Not so much on the athletics but the school enrollments and migration which can be tied to the athletic programs. Can a school like Christiana ever recover? Can Seafood recover? What about Glasgow.. Why would you choose Glasgow over Newark.. just questions..
Glasgow has had a good amount choice in. The qb, their top 2 wrs and a few lineman love the spread no huddle. They are from caravel, appo and one of the votechs. Not sure which one. A system can lead to players transfering in. Helps with Dover taking CR kids who don't want wing t and at smyrna with people wanting a high octane offense. They are getting kids from middletown area to Dover area. I do agree choice, all the charters and votechs have hurt public schools. So many options.
Bone I agree completely.. but the contention is choice was a social program meant to benefit the kids academically.. was never meant to be athletically motivated as to mean "best choice" for the kid for athletics.. End results some public schools are suffering because if that.. By school choice I mean crossing zip codes to attend a different zoned public school.. Not talking about Charters, Techs or Privates as every state has those choices.. Of course its all supposed to be academic but we all know better.. very few states offer total school choice other than in the inner cities.. Where those are abused as well for athletics... I guess my question is should we just do away with school zones and any kid can go to any school they want for any reason? If thats the case then some public schools will die and we need to consolidate or turn it all over to the private sector
another thought Bone... Your saying kids/parents are determining what school choice is best to educate them based on what kind of offense the football team runs?
I wonder what are the choice rates. When I talk to little league parents and parents from middle schools, I don't hear choice as much as what charter, private or votech do I want.
Yes RR. I think all schools have honors and AP classes. If I am a qb or wr, I may pick a stat friendly offense. I can take high level classes anywhere. Just some thoughts
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what I have noticed the better youth teams try and choice to the same schools.. Also its not uncommon the coach gets hired as well.. Like the Howard hoops team a couple years back.. those kids all played AAU together and chose carpentry as their tech ( knowing damn full well that never gets full and they would all get in) Wonder how many are carpenters today.. just saying
Yeah not quite buying that one... not saying they dont have the courses but certainly they dont hold the weight with colleges as ones from CA or ST M , Sals , Friends etc...
Ok so you have a middle school private school qb who would be in a wing t offense transfer to a public spread offense. Academics? It happens my friend.
SO you gave up a top notch education to have your kid play in a spread? for what to chase a scholly that isn't going to happen? You were much better off going to CA and getting academic money that school gets kids al the time...it had nothing to do with wing T
I will leave it at that
Never said that... Just it holds more weight and opens more doors from certain schools.. Colleges know the schools reputations and numbers... They also know prep schools prepare them better for college..No way am I saying the kid isn't or not prepared but its about preparation, advantages and reputation... Privates just do that better.. You know damn well a 4.0 is not close to a 4.0 at CA with their curriculum and grading scale. So do the universities..
Gpa backed up by solid sat will get you in no matter the school. My daughter was public, went to JMU on almost a full academic ride. Her best friend at Glasgow earned the Gate Millennium Scholarship over everyone in De. You can make it anywhere and a system that you want to play in can factor in a decision. If you had a son who was a good qb or wr and the choices were tower hill or concord, ai, mtown etc... Where are you sending them? Just curious. Out of those options.
http://www.iccjournal.info/Opinion_Commentaries/TomorrowLeadership.htm
Her friend at bottom of article
Her friend at bottom of article
School choice works for just that very reason RR. My daughter did school choice to Cape from Milford. top 10% of her class, solid SAT scores = an almost full ride to U.D. The boys on the other hand and lets be kind here, did not embrace academics quite so much as their sister. In their case it was better to put them in the position to be in the top 10% at Milford, they probably would have landed in about the top 25 percent at Cape. One of them crushed the SAT and got a full ride to ASU, which he pissed away (not every story has a happy ending). They other did well on his SAT scores and got 50% at U D. but wanted to take up a trade as an electrician.
The point is, three different kids, three different paths, all had great opportunities. School choice is a good alternative, when worked to the students advantage.
The point is, three different kids, three different paths, all had great opportunities. School choice is a good alternative, when worked to the students advantage.
I was speaking in percentages.... but again you turned it into to IF you had a kid who had a certain athletic ability.. So again its not about the best academic situation but athletic. that is my my point.. are we choosing the best school or the school that suits my kids athletic needs? And are those choices at the detriment of our community based schools? OR another question is .. is my kids athletic needs and my needs as a proud parent more important than supporting my community and the school in it? .
I think all aspects should be weighed if you choice. Academics and extra curricular. I am a public school, no choice guy
Thats cool we all choose whats best for our kids.. There are no right and wrong answers in this debate.. There may be I wish I did this or that but in the end that is just hindsight...
Choice has caused issues for years and all but killed some schools like Glasgow, Christiana and Dickenson.
Remember the Newark dominant run? A fair amount of non Newark kids on those teams that choices in.
Middletown and Penn are getting them now in football and Smyrna in wrestling
My neice works at University of Delaware admissions and sorry to share with everyone that she shared the 4.0 at CA, Sals, St. M holds as much weight as the 4.0 at Delcastle, Dover, and Glasgow. If the kids are from a Delaware school and have over a 3.2 and a 860 SAT, they are getting in! It doesn't matter what school even some of the kids from failing charters and public schools got in, because they met the minimum requirements. Also, regardless of school if they have a minimum 2.5 and regardless of SAT, they get a SEED scholarship for 2 years and are enrolled in the Associates Degree Program.
If anything, she questions why more people don't hold onto the money they spend for private school to use towards a degree in college.
If anything, she questions why more people don't hold onto the money they spend for private school to use towards a degree in college.
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There is a lot of truth in that. The in state tuition is great at UD.. My son got the max academic scholarships at all the private colleges he applied to,,but in the end UD was the best deal at least for what my son wanted to study in college.. not every kid wants to go to UD so that is where the HS education comes in.. any kid that gets good grades and scores well on SAT can get accepted to college. The difference is academic money, grants and more college choices
It's sad that this is even a discussion, but when the government abandoned public schools and bet the house on charter and tech schools, it had a domino effect on everything from athletics to education. And with the governor all but mandating that Christina vacates the city of Wilmington, the numbers for Glasgow and Christiana are going to be THAT much worse. Putting kids in Red Clay and Brandywine solves absolutely nothing when Wilmington (within city limits) STILL does not have a stand-alone public high school when the city now needs TWO at the least.
Our HS feeder is Dickinson. How many guns have been brought into that school in the last couple years? How many kids have ankle bracelets on courtesy of the State? Why would I NOT send my kids to a private school???
I'm also in the Dickinson feeder and my kids won't step foot in that place. Going the Charter route or second mortgage/3rd job to send them to private. Public schooling in DE past the elementary level is a mess.
Can't understand why they can't build a new Wilmington High School. Oh wait, yes I can. Too much politics. I'll stop before I go on a political rant. Don't like to mix football and politics.
Can't understand why they can't build a new Wilmington High School. Oh wait, yes I can. Too much politics. I'll stop before I go on a political rant. Don't like to mix football and politics.
I understand where you are coming from....many of our public high schools are unsafe. Can't fault anyone for taking that route.
My posts was more focused on academics. Point being students/parents taking different routes to wind up at the same result.
If going private is the answer to attempting to keep a hedge of protection around your kids. You are greatly mistaken. You are correct that it has LESS issues, but ALL schools have their own issues like bullying, drugs, peer pressure, drinking, etc. even private schools. It's our job as parents to step up and place morals in our kids that give them strength to stay away from it. Kids who graduate from private schools become thieves, drug dealers and crack heads too. As your children graduate and leave the home, college is an open season of reality that they need to be prepared for academically and SOCIALLY. If not, they will fail in life, because it is what it is.
My posts was more focused on academics. Point being students/parents taking different routes to wind up at the same result.
If going private is the answer to attempting to keep a hedge of protection around your kids. You are greatly mistaken. You are correct that it has LESS issues, but ALL schools have their own issues like bullying, drugs, peer pressure, drinking, etc. even private schools. It's our job as parents to step up and place morals in our kids that give them strength to stay away from it. Kids who graduate from private schools become thieves, drug dealers and crack heads too. As your children graduate and leave the home, college is an open season of reality that they need to be prepared for academically and SOCIALLY. If not, they will fail in life, because it is what it is.
fan..... there certainly is politics in play but common sense is the driving factor here, unfortunately the City is a complete mess right now.....way too much violence/drugs/ and it is a city on edge.
....damn shame because it was a great place with some rough spots but now its just scary....
I'm not talking about building a school in the worst area of the city. They need a high school within the city limits. The area where Wilmington High (now Charter) isn't a bad area and it's just inside the city limits. Howard is there but its small and vo-tech. Maybe by bringing back a high school it would make people in the city embrace it. Give them something to call their own and have some pride in it. Philly is bad and they have city schools all over the place. Lots of major cities are rough these days but they still have schools.
Its funny to think (before we moved here) when my wife and I would go to Philly and travel 95 by Wilmington we used think what a charming little city. We had no idea what was going on there.sheesh.. I used to think Wilmington was like Harrisburg
...fan....I agree with you but the crime knows no limits now....and that area you refer to is decent but make no mistake, it is a very heavy drug/gun route as it provides easy access to the city and suburbs!
The articles in TNJ today do not help.....a TV Show possibility called 'Murder Town"
not good.....
Not sure if you were referring to my post or not. I think you were so no, I'm not GREATLY mistaken. Going private/charter IS my answer to protecting my kids from what's inside our public schools. Does that mean I think there aren't bad kids, drugs, bullying, etc in private/charter schools? Of course not. Nobody thinks that nor said that.
Skyline Middle this year has seen a 600% increase in discipline this year after the redistricting. 600%!!!!! Numerous kids with ankle bracelets, kids led out in hand cuffs. In MIDDLE SCHOOL!!! Thankfully my child only has this year to deal with what was once a great school but now has been turned into a circus. So again, why would I NOT send my kids to private/charter where there are WAY LESS issues?
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