warmachine7954

He wasn't at Dyer County HS that long.. I know he coached at Northview before he went to the HS. I graduated from DC in 98 and I never heard of him at the HS until he got the head job.

Many times, it's more about atmosphere/culture than it is academics. The students make the school just like players make a team. Bad students won't be better at a good school, just like bad players going to a good team won't make that team better. There are so many variables in making a school successful.

Who will Union City hire?

That's why they deny all students out of district in the policy.

Some districts even allow out-of-state students to enroll in TN schools.

The state has left it to each district to make policy regarding students from outside of their "district". Lakeland has 1 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high school (middle school and high school are in the same building), with the first senior class coming next year. It would be a disaster for Lakeland not to know what is happening with the population of Lakeland and accept a bunch of kids who live in Memphis at this stage in the district's development. Excess outside students would only push Lakeland kids to other districts. People buy houses in places like Arlington, Lakeland, Collierville, and the fringes of Shelby County to go to those schools and not be pushed out by a kid who lives in Memphis.

The law you're referring to gives public money to eligible families to use in private schools. It does not open school districts to everyone.

Not all districts allow out-of-district students. I work in Lakeland, and we do not allow students outside of Lakeland to attend Lakeland schools.

UCONN and many other women's teams have male practice/scout teams. UCONN would win most years. This year, they would beat every team in TN.

The regular season is practice for tournaments. If you seeded teams according to regular season records, coaches would schedule weak games during the season to get a top seed. Plus, the seeding would have more hands from the TSSAA involved. We all know they can't get the first-round matchups in the start tournament right.

Memphis East has been in 3A/4A basketball since... at least 2016. That's as far back as the stuff goes on TSSAA website. East was able to stay when they asked.

The semester block is not the only block schedule. There are other models. Is the semester block what Henry County is adopting?

Even if someone turns them in I doubt there will be an investigation.

Memphis Shelby County Schools have tons of optional schools. Kids can attend any school with an optional program where they are "accepted". Any student can claim homelessness. Even if they are not homeless. In an urban area, a kid can move schools, use a new address that is a shared residence, grandparents, aunt/uncle, brother/sister, church member, guardian's coworker, etc... no one is going around from the TSSAA checking to see if the kid lives there. The municipals like Bartlett and Germantown Municipal have open enrollment. So they can get the kids early and not have to worry so much about all of that. The private schools poach kids young too. The public schools will recruit your kid in the handshake line after a game. I don't know why people complain so much about this. If you don't understand the contrast of rural TN to urban TN then move to the urban area so you can partake in the same shady dealings.

I think there is a very good chance that this gets passed. Scenario: Student A qualifies for a voucher, is a good (insert sport) player, is accepted to (insert school here) then is ineligible because of the current TSSAA rules. They are not going to let that happen. That is a bad look for the voucher program. This will be universal across the board in public schools. That way it looks like the voucher program is successful and promotes school choice. FYI: I'm a PS teacher/coach and disagree with the voucher program and school choice. Neither is as simple as people want to believe and it's all very political to pander to both sides of the aisle at the state level and in Washington D.C.