re: In defense of Principal Jane Griffin and Winnfield Senior High School

chalmetteowl, I think in a lot of cases these lines get drawn and we look at the other "side" with skewed glasses. Many publics look at private schools as rich, entitled, conservative, uppity, etc. On the other hand, many privates look at publics as lower class, liberal, poor, uneducated, etc.

But you and I know that both are usually untrue. I know hundreds of good, solid, fair people from private schools and there are equally hundreds of good, solid, fair people from the publics.

I also know that these scenarios play out much differently in larger cities with multiple public & private schools than they do in rural areas with only one school. Winnfield, for instance, has only one public high school. The closest private school s are St. Mary's in Natchitoches (35 miles away) and Cedar Creek in Ruston (40 miles away).

So, to be fair, Winnfield doesn't see the problems faced by the residents of larger cities with multiple schools

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As for taking your
money and leaving the LHSAA in a financial bind,
this, too, is a joke. When Winnfield played
John Curtis in 2011 we had twice as many fans
as JC, with Winnfield having to travel 250 miles
and JC less than 20 miles from the Superdome

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Someone needs to tell PhD Jane that is one of the silliest non sequitur logical fallacies ever.

Kid was living with aunt and uncle in another parish.

Most of the schools casting stones are guilty too

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Has anyone mentioned to this idiot yet that curtis doesn't give scholarships to anyone?

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Meh, no point to bringing it up. They are too butthurt to find the truth. Let them beLIEve what they want.

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And also, 2 to 1 support doesn't mean sht when non-football-playing schools are allowed to vote on what happens in the football playoffs.

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Another valid point.

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Defend the idiot principal all you want. It just outs you as a butthurt bumpkin jealous of the success of others.

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John Curtis has more black kids every year.
This is not in any way to bring race into this discussion. You have got to be kidding me if
you try to tell me that these mostly
underprivileged kids have the money to pay
the thousands of dollars that a private school costs.

We will never get any information from John
Curtis administration about who pays for these
kids. Do you honestly believe that these kids
are not having their costs forgiven or paid for
by someone else?

John Curtis had the opportunity to play all
the way up to 5A when schools could make that choice. They chose to play in 4A when ECA did
choose to play in 5A. So does that make John
Curtis 4A victories tainted because they didn't
"play the best" as some argue that public school
championships this year will be meaningless?

I have admiration for most private schools;
they don't forget that their primary mission
is to educate.

I have nothing but disdain for John Curtis and
ECA because they did everything they could to
bend the rules for their benefit. Championships
are determined between peers; they never were
and are not now peers with public schools that
are bound by an attendance zone and have to take
any and every kind of student. Do you wonder
why the word "Select" was used to describe
private schools?

THANK YOU WINNFIELD PRINCIPAL JANE GRIFFIN!

Are you trying to write a song or something?

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We will never get any information from John
Curtis administration about who pays for these
kids.

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Why should you? Private school.

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Do you honestly believe that these kids
are not having their costs forgiven or paid for
by someone else?

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Do you honestly believe every public school is clean?

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I think it also happened because the lhsaa voting process is skewed... Case in point Oberlin has the same one vote as Jesuit. The obama supporter type high schools won through sheer demographics, while the producers, the good football schools got severely outnumbered

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Well, schools like Oberlin were affected by this, too. Oberlin is very good at 1A football, but no chance at ever beating Evangel for a state championship.

I think ECA moved to 2A if I'm not mistaken, but to say Oberlin shouldn't get a vote is bullshite, this affected then for a while, too.

Eca never wanted to play 1a or 2a but 5a wanted them down based on enrollment numbers.

I am kind of at a loss as to why all the private school guys are so pissed. You had your run at it and the majority voted you out because you fricking cheat like hell. Deal with it. It's your ball, take it and go home if you want. Everyone else doesn't really care.

You sit here and want us to take you seriously and have a discussion about the situation but won't even admit that private schools recruit players from across the state.

Whatever. I don't really have a horse in this race, but damn you frickers are some sore losers.

You should like do something about it instead of whining.

Whether you care or not, the new system is in the least more fair that what they had before.

But I'm sure I'll just hear the same retorts that public schools recruit and John Curtis doesn't give schollies, prove it and all the other bullshite.

I wonder how much money Joe McKnight's family paid JC in total, or Warrick Dunn's famiily to Catholic or hell even Jeremy Hill's family to Redemptorist.

I am sure they paid all the school bills in full with just family money.

It was a long time coming. You held it at bay for a very long time with some fancy finagling at the LHSAA of how private teams played up or down, but this was inevitable.

I am just surprised you guys are so damn bitter about it. Seriously, just go start your own association. It's what you want to do anyway.