I'm not gonna comment on this, but I read with a chuckle on another set of boards the glee of the folks on that board that, in the UIL 1A basketball championship, Mumford defeated a Dallas-area charter school which was alleged to be loaded with a number of high-profile AAU players.
A few posts later, it was pointed out that Mumford's team relied on a number of out-of-district enrolled students who were allowed to attend the district for various reasons.
Stories about districts that were able to entice "move-ins" have been around since about a week or two after the guys finished writing The Bible.
When I was a kid, back in the 70s up in cheeshead land, we played in a district with a town called "Kohler." If you've spent anytime near a toliet, you've probably seen the name ... it's that Kohler. Anyway, Kohler is a company town. The Kohler company actually owned all the land in town (and the school district) and you basically leased the land on a 99-year lease. Back many, many years ago, it was a way for the Kohlers to offer a place to live for their employees.
Anyway, back in the 70s, good paying, union jobs were not easy to come by. But it always seemed that if you had a kid who was a decent athlete (football, basketball, track, baseball), a job (and a low-rent house) were easy to come by if you wanted to work at the Kohler Company and live and send your kid to the Kohler schools.
One day, somebody was telling me that ol' Gordon Wood had been pretty successful in convincing a few out-of-towners that their son would be well served with an education at Brownwood High School, if you get the drift. I remembered my experience with the good folks at Kohler ... and guess who has a plant in Brownwood!
