I think it is important that a few things be clarified. One, the Robinettes do live in the Maryville city limits which allows him to attend Maryville or Blount County schools. However, his father is the principal at Heritage Middle and his mother is a teacher at Walland Elementary both are feeder schools to Heritage High. It is a shame that no one in the Blount County Central Office had the manhood to fire them after this occurred. As an eighth grader he scored a 30 on the ACT and has recently scored a 31. Academics is not the issue at all. He was also voted most liked or some kind of similar superlative while at HMS. The appeal stated that he needed the year to mature socially because he had some social issues which is bs. It probably did not hurt his chances of winning the appeal with Maryville's Lynn Brown on the TSSAA board.
Heritage did not recruit the Robinette family nor did it recruit the Fuller family for jobs just for their kids to play sports. Jesse Robinette has been an assistant principal at John Sevier Elementary, Maryville High School, head principal at Alcoa High School, and now principal at HMS. Imagine if he was still the principal at Alcoa and did this, he would be fired in a heart beat. It has also been said that Quarles told Jesse that this was a stupid move that will make himself and the Maryville program look bad.
As far as the education goes it is all what you and your family expect and put into it. I know people that graduated from Heritage High School that are doctors, lead engineers for major corporations, big time businessmen, etc... all making six figures or more due to their education at heritage and other places. I also know people from Maryville that are bums who have made nothing for their own lives because of what they put into education. nuff said