This got ratcheted up a bit. Rapid City School District now dealing with the bishop
You knew this was going to happen. After the controversy yesterday of the Rapid City School District picking on the catholic schools, now they're going to be facing off with the Bishop. And very likely, a lot of catholic constituents who happen to be voters as well:
As reported in today's Rapid City Journal:
As reported in today's Rapid City Journal:
The exclusion of a Catholic-school team from an invitational track meet at Sioux Park on Tuesday has raised a public discussion about allegations of sports recruiting that have been muttered in private for months. It also prompted a flurry of phone calls throughout the day Tuesday between officials for the Rapid City School District, the Rapid City Catholic School System and even Bishop Blase Cupich that will lead to a group meeting on the issue later in the week.Read it all here. I'll bet this is going to be a topic of a school board meeting in the near future.
and...
The fact that decisions by adults cost the track-team members for St. Elizabeth Seton the chance to compete this week had some Catholic-school parents questioning the commitment to students stated by Wharton. David Henderson, a Rapid City resident with four children in the Catholic system, called the exclusion of the Seton team a “real prevarication” that reflected poorly on the public-school administrators.
“We as taxpayers must demand that our school personnel allow all of the city’s children to compete together,” Henderson said. “St. Elizabeth Seton and St. Thomas More do not recruit students based on athletics.”
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The whole problem here is the emphasis put on sports in schools. Winning is all important. Sports "jocks" are allowed to break rules and get by with it in many cases because the fans and school administration want winners. I'm sure that recruiting does go on now in this time of open enrollment. Some kids switch schools on their own just to get a chance to play a sport.
Maybe it's time to get the emphasis back on academics in schools and take sports and extracurriculars (which are important but not necessarily the school's responsibility) out of education. Then this issue would never come up.
It is part of the Bishop's job. He is involved in the education in his region.
Don't you really mean indoctrination rather than education?
It is only against SDHSAA rules for coaches to initiate contact with 9th grade students and older.
I'm surprised at some of the bigotry in these posts. Sad people.
No I don't mean indoctrination I mean education. However included in a Catholic School education comes religious education. There is nothing wrong with this. Parents know their children will an academic plus some religious education.
I know of many people from across America who have sent their kids to a Catholic school who are not Catholic and praised the education their children recieved across the board.