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STUDENTS BARELY AS RISK OF DYING: "The most salient discovery the world has made during these terrible two months is that COVID-19 is a very dangerous disease, specifically for the elderly and the infirm, particularly those with diabetes, hypertension, other cardiovascular illnesses or the obesity that so frequently leads to these disorders. ... The companion discovery is that this bug, so risky in one segment of the population, poses a near-zero risk to young people. Among COVID-19 deaths, 99.9 percent have occurred outside the 15-to-24 age group; the survival rate in the 20-to-29 age bracket is 99.99 percent. Even assuming the United States eventually reaches 150,000 total fatalities, COVID-19 as a risk to the young will rank way below accidents, cancer, heart disease and suicide. In fact, it won’t even make the top 10.' STUDENTS WANT TO BE THERE: "Forty-five thousand young people — the biggest student population we’ve ever had — are telling us they want to be here this fall. To tell them, 'Sorry, we are too incompetent or too fearful to figure out how to protect your elders, so you have to disrupt your education,' would be a gross disservice to them and a default of our responsibility." THINNING OUT CAMPUS GATHERINGS: "We will make our campus less dense in multiple ways. At least one-third of our staff will be required to work remotely. Our technologists have applied what they’ve learned about social distancing to redesign 700 classrooms and labs, and 9,500 dormitory rooms, all of which will be reconfigured with lower occupancy limits. All large-enrollment courses will be offered online as well as in person, to accommodate those who cannot or choose not to come to campus, and to further reduce in-class numbers.'' TRUSTING STUDENTS TO MAKE IT WORK: "On arrival in August, each Boilermaker will receive a kit including face masks and a thermometer for daily temperature-taking as well as the 'Protect Purdue Pledge' asking for a commitment to at least a semester of inconvenience, not primarily for the student’s own protection but for the safety of those who teach and otherwise serve them. I will urge students to demonstrate their altruism by complying, but also challenge them to refute the cynics who say that today’s young people are too selfish or self-indulgent to help us make this work.''

They won a Sectional (lost to Scecina in Regionals in 2017) and 2 State Championships. As XSTAR pointed out... When enrollment has been 3A they have played 3A... When 2A, we play 2A. And if we are honest, Webo dominated the Sagamore the last 2 years in which there are 4A, 3A, and just a couple 2A schools. One of those 3A schools went to Semi State in 2019 and in 2018 there were 2 Sectional Champs that they beat (3A Tri-West & 5A Lafayette Harrison) during the regular season. If Webo has to move up due to enrollment or success factor, then they move up.

Some might not be very bright too. When they are 3A enrollment, they play in 3A (like they did from 2007-2016). When their enrollment is 2A level, they play in 2A. There are no tricks involved. Their success has been exclusively in 2A to date. They had some ok teams (not great) while they were in 3A but they ran into better teams early. 2010 - lost to Chatard (eventual state champ) in sectional championship 2011 - lost to West Lafayette (regional champ) in sectional semifinal 2012 - lost to Hamilton Heights (state finalist) in sectional semifinal 2013 - lost to Brebeuf (state finalist) in sectional semifinal 2014 - lost to Tri-West (eventual state champ) in sectional semifinal 2015 - lost to West Lafayette (state finalist) in first round I don't think they need to apologize for playing in 2A, as their enrollment dictates, since 2017.

Go on...

That will be one question I am NOT asking next school year. 🤣

There is no doubt about that, however my point would be if we can open up factories that employ 1000's of people, many of which aren't pictures of health, what is the justification to continue to keep schools closed? Pre-existing conditions(immune deficiency, type-1 diabletes, etc...) would need to be excluded. However if; factory workers, engineers, all trades, retail workers, waiter's and waitresses are all returning to work why can't teachers?

https://www.maxpreps.com/m/news/qiL5GOXkFkyfJ9jwZ8wb-g/where-things-stand-with-high-school-sports-in-all-50-states-amid-pandemic.htm?amp=1

I never said I was showing concern. Reading comprehension-it's important. Again, your words, not mine Sonnyboy. Another fail. Why do you even try?

Yep. It was easier. I knew you'd jump right on it. Your words, not mine Sonnyboy. *you're*

Then why are you interested? Your the one who asked about him.......

Let's just hope the next 6 years they stay in 2A 😁

For the most part, I trust my doctor and his team. He's dressed like a space man. He wants to do things electronically, but wanted to see something in person. Everyone was dressed like they were going to Mars. Everyone was thorough, calm, cool, and collected. They don't know yet. They understand these things much more clearly than I do and they weren't taking any chances. I lived in South America for a few years and caught a virus that knocked me on my butt. The scary part is that it hit me several years after I left South America and it took an infectious disease specialist to find it. I'm not taking any chances. I could have caught it in the 1990s in Peru or in the 2000s in Ecuador. It hit me in the middle of teaching in 2012 (I think). I almost had to be put on half days.

I didn't get down there to read it yet, but I will. Everyone has an opinion and the questions are good, but the virus is not very old. We know very, very little, so we're all just giving our opinions. I'll go up and reread.

My specialty!!!

I understand coach. I’d be the same way. It doesn’t matter to me who you guys play, because I’ll be in the stands regardless. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Male series because I don’t like the matchup, but FC has their reasons for playing that game and hopefully we’ll come out on top here in the future.

You would think if you were trying to restart a program, you’d want to encourage linkage to great tradition. Those Hammond High teams of the early 60s were as good as it gets in Indiana at the time.

Kyle McGhee, announced as HC at Carroll Flora. Believe he is the youngest HC in the state (24 yrs old).

Biden and Trump, at Separate Memorial Day Events, Show a Contrast in Style https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-makes-first-public-appearance-since-mid-march-11590430614 He turned into some white dude?

A tribute to the late, great Jerry Stiller. A thread created solely for the airing of grievances over downvotes. If ya got 'em, post 'em here!

The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading "We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country," says a top former economic adviser to Obama. In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties. The economy had just been shut down, unemployment was spiking and some policymakers were predicting an era worse than the Great Depression. The economic carnage seemed likely to doom President Donald Trump’s chances at reelection. Furman, tapped to give the opening presentation, looked into his screen of poorly lit boxes of frightened wonks and made a startling claim. “We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country,” he said.The former Cabinet secretaries and Federal Reserve chairs in the Zoom boxes were confused, though some of the Republicans may have been newly relieved and some of the Democrats suddenly concerned. “Everyone looked puzzled and thought I had misspoken,” Furman said in an interview. Instead of forecasting a prolonged Depression-level economic catastrophe, Furman laid out a detailed case for why the months preceding the November election could offer Trump the chance to brag — truthfully — about the most explosive monthly employment numbers and gross domestic product growth ever. Since the Zoom call, Furman has been making the same case to anyone who will listen, especially the close-knit network of Democratic wonks who have traversed the Clinton and Obama administrations together, including top members of the Biden campaign. Furman’s counterintuitive pitch has caused some Democrats, especially Obama alumni, around Washington to panic. “This is my big worry,” said a former Obama White House official who is still close to the former president. Asked about the level of concern among top party officials, he said, “It’s high — high, high, high, high.” And top policy officials on the Biden campaign are preparing for a fall economic debate that might look very different than the one predicted at the start of the pandemic in March. “They are very much aware of this,” said an informal adviser. Furman’s case begins with the premise that the 2020 pandemic-triggered economic collapse is categorically different than the Great Depression or the Great Recession, which both had slow, grinding recoveries. Instead, he believes, the way to think about the current economic drop-off, at least in the first two phases, is more like what happens to a thriving economy during and after a natural disaster: a quick and steep decline in economic activity followed by a quick and steep rebound. The Covid-19 recession started with a sudden shuttering of many businesses, a nationwide decline in consumption and massive increase in unemployment. But starting around April 15, when economic reopening started to spread but the overall numbers still looked grim, Furman noticed some data that pointed to the kind of recovery that economists often see after a hurricane or industrywide catastrophe like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/2020-election-democrats-281470

Based on Liberal mainstream media fake news, Trump should have died of a heart attack by now since he has been taking hydroxychloroquine every day for the past few weeks.😂