High School Split Playoffs..No More

[BananaHammock]

Privates won't leave the LHSAA. Personally, I'm against the overall split. Split needs to be for lower classes, especially 2A. Need to do away with 5A and drop down to 4 classes overall. Need to change to open enrollment statewide. Any kid in a parish can attend any school in that parish. That would be the best attempt at evening the playing field in athletics.

Besides the like/dislike of these scenarios we should be putting this much effort into our education system and fixing it. Then we can begin to worry about athletics. The Louisiana Public education system is horrible.

[31Ragin97]

Besides the like/dislike of these scenarios we should be putting this much effort into our education system and fixing it. Then we can begin to worry about athletics. The Louisiana Public education system is horrible.

great point. im sure "the flagship" will lead the way

[MelRock]

It is time for the private schools to start their own association and make their own rules.

[wcd35]

If you follow these continuous minor and major rule and structural changes every LHSAA meeting, you come away with the feeling of just how amazingly short sighted everyone involved in this is. They throw out 10 types of almost the same proposals and there is no general scope or plan that the state is trying to move towards. If one plan just happens to tickle their fancy, they vote for it. And when people submit proposals to go in, they get modified by the LHSAA to be different than the original scope. They make so many changes every year just depending on whatever. Oh, let's restrict this or allow this. Next year it's a modification to that or reversal. Just constant tinkering with no overall plan.

[ManAboutTown]

Besides the like/dislike of these scenarios we should be putting this much effort into our education system and fixing it. Then we can begin to worry about athletics. The Louisiana Public education system is horrible.

Now that's a take I can get behind. Bravo sir.

[Mark Hemphill]

These short sighted principals just killed high school athletics in Louisiana.

[Duggie35]

The schools that are in favor of reuniting (select & non-select) should get together and discuss the possibility of creating a new high school athletic organization in Louisiana.

[CajunNation]

The schools that are in favor of reuniting (select & non-select) should get together and discuss the possibility of creating a new high school athletic organization in Louisiana.

You might be on to something here.

[Cajun90]

My .02

I've had my kids in private/public for 14 years now. Mostly private with four different schools. I won't go into details but one just left a private for another private for sports reasons (they didn't offer the sport at school #1).

I'm personally sick of hearing about the "recruitment". I've never seen anything close to that and actually seen the opposite. Parents who have the means to send their children to private school and choose to do so obviously look at the whole picture and athletics is part of it for kids that are involved in athletics. Bottom line is that they don't need to recruit. Parents and kids look for those attributes in a school.

My child left a school (private) that didn't offer her sport and went to another school (private) that excels at her sport because she choose to do that. It cost our family very heavily in more ways than one but it was her choose.

Bottom line this private vs. public is bogus and sends the wrong message. Time for the private schools to go another direction.

[Duggie35]

There is a reason why private/select schools are gaining students and the public school system is losing students, and athletics is not the primary reason.