Football In MS

Right. Never said otherwise.

That would be wild. I mean I can see the reasoning - whether or not I personally agree. But it’ll likely cost a reasonably good R1 team a shot in playoffs whereas the same team in R2 would’ve probably gone into playoffs as a 3 seed instead of not going at all. I still think that the overall Top 4 teams in the North and South are unlikely to change. But still. The goal is always to play post season. And there will be legit teams who don’t get that opportunity in a 7-5-5-7 setup.

Tupelo & Oxford usually trade out in regions 1 & 2. But this breakdown puts them both solidly in 2. And with the recent rise of Germantown, you take a district whose Top 4 were always the same and throw those feathers up in the air to just shift and scatter. It’s a very different look.

Would hate to be in Region 2 7A. dang that’s a tough one

Schools don’t provide them Boosters do… as long as you play their kid

Private school pay is poor - which is why we see so many teachers retire from public and then go teach private once they have full state retirement and benefits. On paper, coaches probably make less than in reality… once the boosters handle vehicles, additional stipends and such.

Median household income for MS families is approx $55k

Low performers are low performers regardless who is in charge. All involved should be held accountable at the highest level. Without accountability, nothing else matters.

Proper funding, adequate facilities, consolidation of small districts and legitimate teacher pay would be a good start.

Hodge is likely implicated in whatever is about to happen to JA and is getting out ahead of it. Literally.

There have been so many versions of this through the years. All asking for the public taxpayer to send money to private schools. It’s just not going to happen in our state. Especially when results in other states are coming back really bad. Speaker White and the Gov engaging in name calling doesn’t sit well and will not be quickly forgotten. Vouchers are a no-go in MS.

So that would mean 81 schools available to play in a “private school” league away from the AHSAA? Definitely sounds like more than enough for a good, competitive league

24 north half and 24 south half is a good showing. That’s 4 regions of 6 schools each - which is the exact same number of schools as in one section of an MHSAA classification. AND doing this means they’d all be playing by the same (private school) rules. So, looks pretty fair to me. No way they’d face nearly as much disparity in numbers than our Top 7A school and bottom 7A school. So it’s definitely doable.

What am I missing here? AHSAA doesn’t want them. They have ample ability (and funding) to create their own association. They’re not bound by the same rules as public schools. So what’s the problem? Why do they want so badly to be accepted by a system who has said they’re no longer welcome? It’s time to end the relationship. Why are these private schools begging to be in a system who doesn’t want them?

It’s staggering how many (male) coaches do exactly this. Coach football, baseball or basketball one period a day and then are ‘assigned’ other classes on paper… that they don’t actually teach. While getting full time teacher pay. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. But to be clear, I’ve only seen this with males (usually those at larger, competitive schools). Female teachers who also coach softball or cheer or basketball don’t get this same treatment.

Idk how they can win a lawsuit on this. It would seem beyond frivolous to beg AHSAA for membership & simultaneously say ‘we’re not gonna follow your transfer rules because we’re private.’ Can’t have it both ways. But private schools want it both ways. And that’s why private schools are mad.

Interesting. I personally saw (and know) more than 1 private school family in our area who lived outside the preferred public school radius here locally and faked an address inside the district to try to get their girls on specific teams within the public school because it was better than the private they were attending. They all got caught & all had to either take their kids back to private school or actually buy property in the right area. They all legit moved so their kids could go to the public school. It never would’ve been questioned, but because their kids all made huge deals out of it with friends and on social media (i.e. how they were going to be on “xyz” team and didn’t have to relocate because everyone knew their parents had money). So this scam has been tried and works both ways.

So your state representative told you that vouchers would not go to the schools? He said funds go to the families who then give them to schools? None of that even makes sense. The tax implications for families receiving actual state funds would be massive. A “voucher” is worth nothing without the promise standing behind it. That promise is state money. The state will send funding to the chosen school. Funding HAS to go to the schools. Families won’t be getting funds they can transfer. Any funds transferral done will be done between the school and the state. Otherwise what’s to stop a family from getting this money and doing something else with it? The only group who may be able to get actual funds would be families of homeschoolers. But even that could be more of a reimbursement thing when it all comes down.

HB2 is written to allow funds for only 12,500 (max) in the first year. There aren’t 2 separate pools of students. Public & private are in the same pool. Including families with students already paying private school tuition for their students. There is no uppermost income limit to receive a voucher. That’s one of many issues wrong with HB2. Another one is the fact that students don’t have to be leaving a “failing” school in order get the voucher. When HB2 says “chocie” they really mean it. Vouchers can go anywhere - including private - for any reason. You don’t have to state why you want to leave where you are.

Nope. Anyone who applies and gets approved can go anywhere else they want. On your dime.

It’s SUPPOSED to be for 12,500 students whose families are at levels well below the poverty line. But HB2 provides no guarantee for that. If enough of those “low income” students don’t apply (because they aren’t aware or parents don’t know how or whatever), then the applicant pool widens and widens again until all 12,500 spots are filled. There is no cutoff in HB2 for those well outside the poverty line. THIS is the loophole where existing private school families can get tuition funded. And you can bet those families will know all about it and have their applications in. On time & early.

Exactly this. There is nothing in HB2 to stop families with high 6 digit incomes from accessing these “school choice” funds for their children who’ve been enrolled in private school since birth. Which is exactly why HB2 isn’t about school choice…

Initially it’s 12,500 (with no uppermost income limit on who can get it). Then it increases in subsequent years, with no provision for increases in accountability for use of funds

Not all public schools “…raise a generation of moochers who are told at a young age they aren't capable of the same accomplishments as certain others are…” I am sorry for you if that was your experience. That is certainly not the cumulative experience for every public school student. Speaking of it as such is playing a blame game. If there’s a problem at any level, including state level leadership, it should be addressed. Immediately.

The game is talking smack about public education to make it appear inferior on the overall to private. Look, I’m sorry if your kids were only test-trained in public school and didn’t get the education they needed. Yours is not the story for everyone, including me. So you insistence on calling the entire public school system a “fraud” is simply choosing inflammatory language to elicit a knee jerk reaction. And that’s a game I won’t play. If public education is broken, we owe it to our children to fix it - not find workarounds to it.