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fun fact, former Rensselaer Bomber Middle schooler His father once coached at SJC sure wish the Pumas were hiring like 40-50 some year old coaches when in operation !! Never got to reap the reward of coaches kids on team from college towns. However, clinic this weekend, former DC/HC Cory Sanders was a feature speaker, has been at PITT for 8 years as safety coach. Great reconnecting with him, I told him same thing, always hiring those young pups, never got that teenager!! 🙂 Quite the pipleine of coaches at SJC since I have been at RCHS: Sanders: Pitt Lou Espisito: DL coach Michigan, left Memphis DC job before he actually cordinated that posistion this past year I think Dave Denham: Charlotte Lester: OC Iowa Jake Moreland: TE coach NFL Texans MIke LaFleur OC Rams All Came through St. Joe last 20 years.

Welcome to senior night… here’s a student who just started in here in August. Let’s give him a hand for attending 3 schools in 4 years…. Sounds riveting.

The bullcrap most Teacher's Unions tried to pull during Covid is enough for me to have zero faith in that institution ever again. Not that I ever supported it in the least. Public sector labor unions should be illegal in the first place.

PURE. ❤️

My initial inclination was to simply toss this off as yet another uninformed opinion reached from a flawed premise. But instead I chose to give @Bash Riprock the benefit of the doubt and first ask him “what do you mean by ‘benefit of the doubt’ in the context of officiating?”

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Just having fun Coach....love your posts....and in this case, understand your feelings!! Enjoy the game!!

BINGO! And again, I just don't quite understand the vitriol and attack on public education schools. I get the fact the Right generally doesn't like Labor Unions, and the Teachers Union is one of the biggest in America - but is that a reason to wage war on the whole Public School system?? Like - doesn't the Right realize teachers in the teachers Union teach in private schools as well?? I honestly don't understand why they (the Right) hate public schools so much - and that was actually the intention of my original post was for someone to explain to me the decades long attack on public schools....but all I got was smart-a@# responses like "it sucks" Well ok then...

Apparently whiting won a “mythical” state championship https://www.wrhistoricalsociety.com/a-history-of-whiting-high-school-football-before-1958

Whoa Whoa Whoa

Here's the issue with your take on accountability. The Statehouse refuses to hold voucher and charter schools accountable in any way. A charter school turns in false enrollment numbers, they get excused. State Board of Accounts calls into question the spending of a charter school, but the President of the company running it refuses to comply. The State recently tried to submit a bill that would set a max on administration salaries at 15% of the money the district gets from the State. What they found is less than a handful of districts would not be in compliance, so it was dropped. They also left out charter and private schools getting vouchers from that bill as they often do. Turned out that the charters in Allen county were all over 20% going to admins. One charter had 54% of the money they got going to admins. Keep in mind this is money that goes to the classroom and teacher salaries. No accountability there though. Voucher and charter schools can and do discriminate when admitting students. They get to choose who gets in and who stays. They get to set standards for students to remain in the school that they do not allow public schools to set. I saw a post with the recent outbreaks that a person posted please keep your kids home if they are sick, but 2 different replies said their own children who all get vouchers can only miss so many days in a year or they are asked to leave the school. Where's the accountability for that? When it comes to State testing, you know everyone loves to talk about how far behind kids are, BUT legislators allow charter and voucher schools to choose either growth or proficiency to be the key factor in school scores. Public schools are forced to use proficiency.....some accountability, huh? Just a few years ago, after courts had ordered that multiple charter school operators owed over $100 Million back to the State, the leaders in the Statehouse voted to excuse that debt. Accountability? Want public school accountability? Run for school board. What is taught in schools, even with the State Board of Education develops the standards for each subject, is still controlled locally. The budget for every district is completely open to the State and there is a multi step process to get anything approved in the budget. Also, ask your sped teachers what will happen when the DOE is eliminated. To think all that money comes back to the States is a pipe dream at best. But what about States like W. VA, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana who relay far more heavily on federal funding?

Venturing a bit off topic lately.... but no one can point to a single bill passed in Indiana since January of 2009 that has been for the benefit of public school students. Make no mistake, the demise, the concept that they are failing (take a look into special education waivers and how legislators have intentionally made the far more difficult to get), the problems facing public schools and the challenges thrown at them....have all been intentional. This transfer bill is no different. A couple things to watch for this session; what the Governor has touted as property tax relief will be extremely costly to most school districts. He also plans to remove the cap from vouchers. So any family of any income level will be eligible. Meanwhile, pre-k and other programs for early education have long waiting lists and strict income requirements. Current poverty level for a single parent with 3 children (save the judgment) is $25,820. So a parent over that limit is NOT eligible for a program like Head Start, but a household of 4 making $220,000 is eligible for a voucher. Regardless of your typical political beliefs, only one party has been in charge in Indiana going back to Daniels taking office in 2005. Bottom line is the more these legislators have gotten involved, the less local control there is and the more problems they create. Again, this transfer bill is just one of many to create more problems.

I'd beg the governor to spend a month in my classroom.

If you can do better, then I'd encourage you to join the fight. While not all are in it for the right reasons, I applaud anyone willing to run a classroom full of kiddos/teenagers and tries to have a positive influence in their lives. You want to live in a "bottom line"/data driven/results world - then fine. But there is so much more to it than that. I have students that, where they come from, you should be proud they even make it to school. But, keep beating that Public School sucks drum - we appreciate it.

I'm all in for the bears Just a realist

Not to turn this into a political forum - but I think most sound-minded individuals probably have right-leaning ideals/tendencies - but for the life of me, I don't understand the Republican's vitriol against public education. Been like that for decades upon decades.

Republicans hate Public Education...not a hard thing to figure out.

With the changes to the ICC, Indy Lutheran had two additional non-conference weeks to fill. Significant adds for 2025 are games at 5A New Albany and hosting 5A McCutcheon. A week 3 game with Linton would be a good fit, but could also be week 14 matchup. Personally, while The Roy provides a great game environment, I absolutely HATE filming there!

Dick Jauron passed.