re: Can someone explain Louisiana HS classifications to me? What's this I-V?

I've never understood the "they don't have any boundaries" argument against the private schools.

The private schools charge tuition -- in several cases it's more than $10K per year -- and that factor alone restricts their potential enrollment.

A public school may have 2,000 students, as Dutchtown, West Monroe, Barbe and a couple of others do, but are there 2,000 families in, say, Ascension Parish or Ouachita Parish who can afford and are willing to send their kids to a $10,000 high school?

The answer is clearly no.

Evangel and John Curtis both have, I think, enrollments in the 300s.

Yeah, the public school coaches argue, but the Catholic schools give scholarships. This is a myth. Most of the Catholic schools operate on a need-based system. You turn over your financial records, and they decide how much your tuition is going to be.

Look at it another way: At a public school, ALL of the players are "on scholarship."

If a coach is complaining about a private school "recruiting" a star player away, maybe the coach needs to ask himself why the family picked the private school athletic program over his.

I'm not trying to start a civil war over this. I'm just saying why I think the public-select split in Louisiana is foolish.