This is the second time...

[Gov]

The Virginia Plan is coming. It has it's merits

 

This plan has no merits, as I have said before, win a region championship with seniors, have to move up with inexperience and try to compete. What you did the year before is not a good indicator of how you will be the next year. Surely everyone can see this. Talent comes and goes where ever you go, especially when you are a small rural school.

 

Parental support is invaluable in all aspects of the education process.

 

Bald Coach, I have been really impressed by your coments on the public-private issue, however lets not confuse, parental support with parental involvement. Having been involved in both the public and private, there could be an argument that pubics actually have support and that privates have to much parent involvement, and as for coaches leaving a small rural school, most of the time it is for more money, and not necessarly for a better job. As I have said before, school systems that put a priority on athletics whether public or private seem to succeed more than those that don't. I also don't agree with your stand on the merit system. For someone who usually looks at things objectivly, I don't see how can't see why it has no merit.

[Baldcoach]

Gov,

 

A quickie from a tired mind...I still support the merit system. It is the only system that directly addresses what seems to be the main issue...dominance by a few teams in a division.

 

In reality I don't support anything but good Football. But it looks like we are gonna get something whether we want it or not.

 

I do believe that parental support and involvement are an advantage that most privates have over most publics. The comment I think you were referring to was my qualification that some publics have just as much. Especially small town publics where the community is involved. In fact, one of the reasons many urban families send kids to private schools is that the big urban schools have lost the small school feel and values. Kudos to the rural publics for keeping what I think is the best model for schools alive and well.

[lazarus]

"For someone who usually looks at things objectivly, I don't see how (you) can't see why it has no merit."

 

govman,

 

looking at things objectively and agreeing with you (or me) are not one and the same. rational, sane, intelligent people can have different opinions, based on the same facts.

[Gov]

rational, sane, intelligent people can have different opinions, based on the same facts.

 

My point is lazarus,we need to look at all the facts, sometimes we only want to look at the facts that support our stand. If we are intelligent, rational, and sain we are willing to look at all the facts. Based on all the facts the merit system has more negatives than positives. Of course as you have pointed out this is just my opinion, and opinions will vary.