How would you qualify this? The school I attended had all members of the incoming freshman class who had scored above a certain %ile on standardized testing go through an additional testing, writing, and interview process and awarded a partial (actually a rather insignificant ~$2k/annually out of $10k+ tuition) scholarship to the top 5 students for the duration of high school provided they maintained a certain GPA. I was one of the recipients of the award, and went on to be all-State in my sport as a freshman and throughout high school. My sport was not football or basketball or baseball, so I am sure no public schools would complain about "recruiting" in my case, but I am wondering how your proposal would handle situations like mine. For what it was worth, it would be difficult to argue that my receipt of the award was lacking in merit as I acquitted myself by becoming a National Merit and AP scholar later on.

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Anyone with insight on the meetings held today? Mascona teased it for 5:30, but I had to get on a phone call and missed his story.

What I heard re: the meeting at PBS--the "select" schools will seek an injunction to prevent the split from taking effect this fall. They will wait until next January's meeting to see what will happen. The question was posed, "If the publics vote us out again, who is in favor of breaking away completely?" All in attendance raised their hands. I assume they will begin planning their new organization immediately.

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Posted by CourseyCorridor

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Posted on 1/30/13 at 1:06 am to tigercross

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How would you qualify this?

In Tennessee, schools that gave need-based financial aid were separated from the rest of their association, much like the proposed split here.

I think that would be your criteria and maybe a second criteria would be merit-based scholarships past a certain percentage of your school enrollment.

Basically, if you are a metro school with a large percentage of your students receiving need-based financial aid, then you get a huge bump in class and might be a school with 400-500 students playing 4A or 5A, if I were calling the shots. If you are a rural private that gives no need-based financial aid, you'd stand a good chance at staying in your same class.

Big difference between an urban private school that gives financial aid and is surrounded by 500k people within a reasonable commute and a rural school with maybe 30k or fewer people within 20-30 miles that gives no, or little, need-based aid (like a Sacred Heart-VP, for example).

The biggest goal I'd have would be getting the 2A and 1A metro privates out of the same class as your rural public schools. U-High can almost accidentally recruit talent that Winnfield can never accumulate at their school. All it takes is for a football version of Collis to have a stud kid with a couple of buddies. Add in an LSU coach's kid that can play and just like that you've got 4-5 kids who are once-in-a-generation player at most 2A schools.

That really isn't fair.

That's why the approach should be to factor in the urban population of the school and mix it in with how widespread financial aid is and whether that aid is based on merit or need.

The goal would be to get your urban schools all in the higher classes except in rare cases where an urban private is small and gives no financial aid or, at least, no need-based aid.

What if the school gives only merit-based aid? Then there should still be a multiplier, but only a slight one, I'd say.

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