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re: LHSAA punishing kids displaced by Hurricane Laura
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:30 pm to poochie
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:30 pm to poochie
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but you're making a big deal out of something that actually makes sense and is reasonably defensible.
It’s not reasonably defendable if you have any working knowledge of the LHSAA absurd “attendance zone” scheme.
Furthermore, there are going to be thousands of HS athletes affected by this. Schools in Lafayette and BR are going to be pushed to capacity (especially with COVID restrictions) which is going to force students to be shuffled around to different schools - meaning they will be ineligible.
Just a horrid, poorly thought out decision.
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Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:32 pm to Antonio Moss
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It’s not reasonably defendable if you have any working knowledge of the LHSAA absurd “attendance zone” scheme.
teach me, then, about the absurd attendance zones.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:33 pm to poochie
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the LHSAA loses their minds when it comes to recruiting
I mean, that is completely and utterly false. They don’t enforce any of their own recruiting rules. They are completely inept.
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open season for penalty free "out of area" transfers, i would argue, would be more "harmful" to kids. the ones on other schools that don't recruit and have to face these stacked teams.
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This isn’t New Orleans. There are a lot of kids displaced but the it’s not like Lake Charles is a hotbed or elite athletes.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:33 pm to Antonio Moss
The Bastrop rule
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:37 pm to Antonio Moss
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There are a lot of kids displaced but the it’s not like Lake Charles is a hotbed for elite athletes.
Maybe not for fall sports.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:39 pm to poochie
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teach me, then, about the absurd attendance zones.
The LHSAA created these mythical attendance zones around private schools. Basically, as a private school, you are in the same attendance zone as a public school district in which the private school sits. It has no bearing on where your students actually come from. For instance, U-High’s attendance zone is the McKinley district even though almost none of their students actually live in the district.
And some of areas don’t even have a private school in the zone. So if you live in a horrible public school district and it doesn’t have a private school in the zone, the kid automatically loses a year of eligibility for opting to go to a private school (even if they were enrolled in a private middle school).
Now, it’s a horrible rule but a student is really only ineligible for varsity for a year (normally their freshman year) so private schools don’t make much of an uproar.
But situations like this really expose just how ridiculous the rule is.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:40 pm to Antonio Moss
Guess the voices of a few coaches were enough to cause this.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 4:56 pm to Antonio Moss
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option of having their child attend a private school and play sports unless that school is in the mythical attendance zone of the family’s displaced home.
Just curious what is "mythical" about attendance zones ? .. now there may be different rules for different school systems but that information is readily available at this point
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:03 pm to Antonio Moss
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The LHSAA created these mythical attendance zones around private schools. Basically, as a private school, you are in the same attendance zone as a public school district in which the private school sits. It has no bearing on where your students actually come from
There is nothing mythical about EBR attendance zones. They are set by the public schools. Are you suggesting that the LHSAA should poll all students at private schools and then create a zone for each private school depending on who attends ?.... Also, not every school system is like EBR
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:08 pm to yaherrdme
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They are set by the public schools. Are you suggesting that the LHSAA should poll all students at private schools and then create a zone for each private school depending on who attends ?
Or do like most states and have a mileage/radius limit.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:32 pm to chinese58
quote:what an a-hole. He better get his team back in action quickly with that stance or else kids will be kept from places they can play
Guess the voices of a few coaches were enough to cause this.
After all it is about the kids?
This post was edited on 9/1/20 at 5:52 pm
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:34 pm to chinese58
Yeah, the Sulphur coach was complaining about schools trying to recruit his players yesterday then a lot of other coaches got ticked about it and probably encouraged the LHSAA to do something. Sounds like a mess.
This post was edited on 9/1/20 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:50 pm to tigerskin
I can see why people in different positions feel the way they do. I wonder how the Texas and Mississippi associations view this. Louisiana lost a ton of kids to Texas, and even states like Georgia after so many people were displaced by Katrina. This ruling might make more parents think about moving to another state.
Are there programs that have been wiped out for this season? Will small town people have other choices to attend, if their school can't play?
Are there programs that have been wiped out for this season? Will small town people have other choices to attend, if their school can't play?
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:26 pm to chinese58
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This post was edited on 9/1/20 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:35 pm to Antonio Moss
What if they move to parishes without mandatory attendance zones?
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:39 pm to yaherrdme
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There is nothing mythical about EBR attendance zones. They are set by the public schools. Are you suggesting that the LHSAA should poll all students at private schools and then create a zone for each private school depending on who attends ?.... Also, not every school system is like EBR
Why would private schools have attendance zones at all? It’s nonsensical. Mileage radius makes sense. But an attendance zone based on a completely different school is just stupid.
This post was edited on 9/1/20 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 9/1/20 at 7:04 pm to Antonio Moss
There's a grand total of one Catholic high school in LC and its enrollment is fairly small. I'm sorry for the half dozen or so kids who may have to choose between a religious education and continuing their HS athletic career, but their plight isnt reason enough to institute a free for all.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 7:15 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:if Katrina was, this one should be. I’m looking forward to seeing who we’re gonna get
but their plight isnt reason enough to institute a free for all.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 10:00 pm to Choupique19
It was pretty nasty what happened. I agree with the LHSAA for once
Posted on 9/2/20 at 8:42 am to sta4ever
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It was pretty nasty what happened.
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Bastrop players ineligible because of false reports
Associated Press
BASTROP, La. -- Two key players on Bastrop High School's
football team signed false reports regarding their transfers from
Port Sulphur after Hurricane Katrina, a top Louisiana high school
sports official said in a ruling released Wednesday.
The finding means that quarterback Randall Mackey and running
back Jamal Recasner, who have been found to have transferred
improperly in 2005, will also be ineligible for 2006, Louisiana
High School Athletic Association Commissioner Tommy Henry said.
Bastrop won the Louisiana Class 4A state championship in 2005,
but the LHSAA voided that title after finding that assistant
coaches recruited the hurricane-displaced players from Port Sulphur
and improperly transported them to Morehouse Parish. ...
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During a preliminary investigation last November, all five
players, along with Bastrop assistant coach D'Carlos Holmes and the
mothers of Mackey and Brown, signed a false report that said the
players were taken to Bastrop by someone other than assistant
coaches, Henry said. ...
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First this was a case of illegal recruiting," Henry said.
"The LHSAA is not going to let a school use a kid it illegally
recruited. You also have falsified documents."
Schools were given wider latitude in accepting transfers during
the aftermath of two devastating 2005 hurricanes in southern
Louisiana, but rules on direct recruiting were not relaxed. ...
ESPN
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