You know what? I am happy today!
So many people on here sound angry and upset, i.e. Ghost.
I can assure you there will never be a separate playoff for state championships in Iowa. The public schools have too much to lose. Yes, I said it: public schools have too much to lose.
If private schools held their own championships, it would equal -$$$$$$$$$, and lots of it. It would be like the big five football conferences in college football who are starting to make up their own rules. Private schools could make up their own rules, and take the best players from the area. And talk about college and professional recruiters, they would be lined up to see these kids play at the highest level. Then you might see the state of Iowa become a football state where college programs would want handfuls of our student instead just a handful.
The place where you can find the best public and private schools in the state are ones where both schools push the other for excellence. If a public school or vice versa has a quality program in the arts or something like that, you can be assured the other one is going to try and make their program better. The same with academics and sports.
I said all along that after WLI beat SE, WLI would give Regina a run for their money. They were big and physical.
Oh, and if any of you watched that game of TV one of WLI staff people, I think a principle, not sure on that one, talked about how their new weight room got them to this point so they could be so successful in sports during halftime.
You know what's not fait, how the way the state of Iowa treats the western side of the state. It's like we don't exist. Just think of how much an economic impact Highway 20 would have on western Iowa if it was four lanes all the way across the state. Some of the small towns that are dying and being forced into mergers with other small communities would be able to keep their schools open. Imagine that.
Every thing I hear on here is unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair. That's what I used to say growing up about my older siblings. Grow up. Life is unfair or have you never heard of that before?
Every time people talk about rosters of private schools they say kids transfer in and what not. While, I am not denying that some of this exist, look at all most every private schools rooster and see how many of them have been going to that school for most of their educated years. Some have been their only a few years but most have been there a long time.
In fact one of the problems private schools have, is that kids will attend up to 8th grade and then transfer to the public school for high school. It happens in every private school that I know of.
Private schools saves the tax payers of this state millions and millions of dollars every year. They employ countless people who might not otherwise have a job which then would make the tax base smaller and that would mean more taxes for all of us. We pay our taxes for public education even though our kids don't benefit from it. What would happen if we just stopped paying our taxes for public schools? Isn't that double taxation?
Where is the love? Can't we all just get along together? Help me Ghost sing, kumbaya, kumbaya, kumbaya. Rember the campfire days gone by? It almost wants to make get up and hug someone.
Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!
FYI. The picture of a warm, cozy community without conflict associated itself with the song and especially that foreign-sounding word in its title, kumbaya.
