My projections for Alignment - Map Included

[speedkills]

I understand the UIL's new stance on charter schools & the driving force behind it (AAA Academy in basketball). But how can they ask (or expect) any charter school with 100 or less HS enrollment to jump from 6-man football to 4A 11-man? That's a) physically impossible for some of those schools (numbers), and b) ridiculous. The UIL allows for an automatic appeal of this re-classification rule, and if they were to deny it then it sends the obvious message that small charter schools are not welcome in their organization and need to look elsewhere for a league affiliation.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

I understand the UIL's new stance on charter schools & the driving force behind it (AAA Academy in basketball). But how can they ask (or expect) any charter school with 100 or less HS enrollment to jump from 6-man football to 4A 11-man? That's a) physically impossible for some of those schools (numbers), and b) ridiculous. The UIL allows for an automatic appeal of this re-classification rule, and if they were to deny it then it sends the obvious message that small charter schools are not welcome in their organization and need to look elsewhere for a league affiliation.

.....and the problem with that is?............

 

[jc_30]

I think meadow and ropes will stay in the same district. They are 5 miles apart.

 

[freeagent]

I understand the UIL's new stance on charter schools & the driving force behind it (AAA Academy in basketball). But how can they ask (or expect) any charter school with 100 or less HS enrollment to jump from 6-man football to 4A 11-man? That's a) physically impossible for some of those schools (numbers), and b) ridiculous. The UIL allows for an automatic appeal of this re-classification rule, and if they were to deny it then it sends the obvious message that small charter schools are not welcome in their organization and need to look elsewhere for a league affiliation.

.....and the problem with that is?............

Psst ... just between you and me, I think that was the idea ...

Seriously, the one question I have is the rule calls for an "automatic appeal." But what are the grounds on which UIL will overturn the re-classification by rule? If it's "you're not competitive, so you can stay in 1A," well, I can see a lot of folks that might disagree with that philosophy as being somewhat arbitrary or penalizing small charter schools that just "happen" to be blessed with good athletes (and we know how that just surprisingly happens at some of our good UIL public schools, right, pals...).

I think the talk of this has pretty well died down in the last year or so, but there was a group of private schools (operating under the "trade group" of the Texas Association of Nonpublic Schools) that had petitioned UIL to look at starting a "separate but equal and not a net cost to UIL" section for private schools (and by the way, if anyone thought that 300 or so independent private schools were going to dump their TAPPS, T-CAL, SPC, TCAF or whatever membership and flock over to UIL Private School Division, you all got another guess coming). Perhaps the only benefit of that study at UIL is to level out a uneven table, but one of the thoughts was that UIL could use this new division to shift charter schools away from the public schools that are historically UIL members.