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I sure hope that Indiana will be progressing with more caution than some other schools that have already opened when kids get back in the buildings. Here's a picture of a high school hallway in Georgia on the second day of classes. The guidelines for that school are that "masks are a personal choice" and that social distancing "would not be possible to enforce ..." The first picture is the "one way" hallway and the second is one of the limited two-way hallways. The superintendent says that the pictures "lack context," but unless there's a raging fire somewhere and all of these kids are fleeing for their lives or unless these students are all part of an experiment test group or unless this picture is from fall 2019, I'm not sure what type of context puts a positive direction on it.

Yep. His dad and uncles also played basketball at LCC back in the 80s.

Nothing much. What app with you? 😀

My oldest son possibly getting back into playing football after a two-year hiatus just coaching football and playing soccer. He said tonight, since he didn't make the high school soccer squad, that the soccer coach suggested that he check out football and he was interested in maybe getting back in to playing.

No refund per se, but they do get a deduction on their income for state taxes ... $1,000 per kid. Sounds like something until you realize that, with the tax rate being around 3.4% it ends up being a whopping $34 back per kid. Same thing applies for homeschooled kids.

Most recent state indications for football seasons per MaxPreps. https://www.maxpreps.com/news/ha3S_dWexUOaekUFjBMfkA/high-school-football-kickoff-dates-in-all-50-states.htm Teams starting outside of fall or undecided ... New Jersey is starting in October: SPRING 2021 State – Start Date / Original Start Date California – Jan. 8 / Aug. 21 District of Columbia – Feb. 22 / Aug. 28 Colorado – Feb. 22 / Aug. 27 Virginia – March 1 / Aug. 28 New Mexico – March 4 / Aug. 17 Nevada – March 5 / Aug. 14 Washington – March 8 / Sept. 4 Illinois – TBD / Aug. 28 Minnesota – TBD / Aug. 28 Maryland – TBD / Sept. 4 TO BE DETERMINED State – Original Start Date Delaware – Sept. 11 Hawaii – Sept. 4 North Carolina – Aug. 20 Oregon – Sept. 4

Not going to happen. The schools tend to make money on kids that are partially homeschooled if I'm not mistaken. My kids attended and attend part-time and I believe the state provides funding to the school at a per credit rate higher than a student attending full time. As I also pointed out to the admin, the partial homeschool kids also take up less than their fair share of resources to making them fairly decent investments on average for most schools.

IHSAA says that you are wrong ... since at least 2013.

Most of the waivers that parents sign for athletic activity are written specifically with the assumption that the parent WILL NOT be available in the case of an injury accident and that's how the schools initially expect to handle those incidents when they are in planning for the season. If parents ARE available, either in person or phone, those items in the waiver can then be overridden at the time of injury. I would, however, expect that the waivers give fairly explicit indication of how injury is handled with the assumption that parents won't be available ... they usually provide language like the staff is allowed to use their best judgment in action taken.

Wouldn't work. Might be mistaken for the real thing by the South Newton guys and they'd eat your face off. 😀 I kid, I kid ... then again, just to be safe ...

New relief bill, depending on side of the aisle is support to have some money for school although one side is more than the other and the side with lower amount is predicated on support only for schools that open in-person. Also, one side of the aisle had provisions for state and local support, which could possibly be used toward additional testing, but the other side had none outside of relaxing repayment for previous relief. Both sides of the aisle also had general coverage for COVID testing and research ... one side had twice as much as the other ... roughly 35 billion to 75 billion.

Hopefully it's not as bad as the parents that one of my son's touth baseball teammates who were divorced had. There was actually a decree in the paperwork that spelled out seating at sporting events and, during baseball season, they had to sit in different bleacher groups, so one of them always had to sit in the visitor bleachers to avoid violating the agreement.

I think families can make their own decision about exposure TO THEMSELVES, but my concern would be the folks who aren't thinking about the other folks that are there to see their kid(s) play. I think common sense can be the potential problem. I think you would see folks who believe it is their "God given" and "Constitution given" right to sit anywhere they want at a football game decide that they were going to "take a stance" ... just like you see the folks who show up in restaurants and berate the wait staff or attack cashiers in grocery stores who are asking people entering THEIR store to do something as simple as wear a mask ... and it's not even in public places, but also in places like churches and hospitals where you see this less-than-altruistic behavior. I would hope that it wouldn't be members of the players' families, but I think we've all been to stadiums in the past where there are those folks who, in non-pandemic times, believe that their ticket gives them the right to do whatever they want ... and some/many of those folks have family members down on the grass.

They, the schools/venues, might be able to handle it. At our church, there's social distancing where every other pew is blocked off. On the open pews, there are Xs that show separation of six-foot gaps. Families/people "sign up" for Mass and are seated by an usher. Families are "grouped" based on their reservation. I guess, in theory, a two-person family could "bring a friend" or two, but they would be isolated in a "family block" and away from the next "family block." Similarly, you would probably set it up like some local restaurants have where they will seat no more than six in a social distancing block. Our family of seven, when everyone goes to dinner, tends to split with the kids at one table and my wife an I at another to adhere to their guidelines. I would hope that the families and fans would, since this is "about the kids" like everyone keeps saying, do what they are supposed to be doing and what they are asked to do. If not, then the school/county/district/IHSAA or whomever may not have any options if we can't all be adult about it.

Wouldn't it make more sense to go ahead with whatever they could get taken care of rather than doing no games in the first week? If push came to shove, you could always have that vacant week the week before State, or regionals, or semis to allow for injury ... or COVID ... recovery.

https://education-reimagined.org/why-180-days/

Different level of motivation in comparison.

I envision Cathedral showing up at games and asking, "What's your safe word?" 😀 Lord, I apologize for that.

I would conjecture that, prior to COVID, conference championships were considered relevant ... by those in the conference. Illinois has already decided that's the way to go for their state. I've not yet looked at their plan in detail, but it would seem to make sense to check out releases from the IHSA as well as seeing if there's an Illinois version of GID to see what coaches, fans, etc. have discussed / are discussing about how they are moving forward with spring football as well as other sports.

I've noticed this advantage with my kids who, for the most part, have been fully homeschooled until high school and then split time between homeschool and regular school when they get to high school. My middle child did about four years between junior high and the first two years of high school full time at a public school and will be heading back to a hybrid homeschool model this fall, her junior year. but the others have focused on main being homeschooled until high school. It's not really that they do it when they want as we have them do most of their work during regular "school" hours, but if they get something completed early, they can move on to their next subject rather than kind of killing time in class waiting on everyone else to finish. Similarly, if they need a bit more time, it allows then to have that flexibility before moving on to another topic. The other advantage that we have seen with this is that our kids' education has been incorporated into life as a whole as opposed to just "during school time." As such, we tend to find our kids incorporating there lessons into things in regular life through the day. In a sense, the learning doesn't have an artificial break point. We also ended up incorporating their learning into family activity too ... especially when the kids were in elementary school and middle school. Family trips often had a learning aspect to it and typical school holidays weren't big breaks from learning ... i.e., we didn't take a week off for Spring Break and Thanksgiving was typically a break on Thursday with a half-day on Friday unless we went to LOS for state games. The kids learned the discipline of handling their own schedules and also understanding how to pace themselves. We also gave them the options to move school days to Saturdays and/or Sundays when other events were pushing on their schedules like performances, games, science fairs, etc. This helped them manage competing items better. For my oldest two, they already had a taste of managing college schedules before they even got out of high school, so it was less stress when they headed off to college. the youngest three are no yet in college, but the middle one is again resuming home schooling this fall and my youngest two have been home schooled their whole life, so they are pretty used to being given several tasks to complete and figuring how to balance those in to their lives at a very early age.

As a coach, I appreciate EVERYTHING that volunteers do. The guys who man the sticks, the announcers, the guy who runs the scoreboard, the person that films the game, the parents that work concessions and sell tickets, the students who volunteer to pick up the trash in the stadium after the game, the folks who clean up in the restrooms before/during/after the game, the guys who line and maintain the field, and the stat guys too. Anyone who's helping out is just as valuable in the scheme of things. As a matter of fact, I bet there are some coaches/ADs at some of the smaller schools who probably have first-hand appreciation since if folks aren't stepping up, it often falls to the coach/AD to do it.

A couple of ideas. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/european-teachers-parents-officials-challenge-trump-claim-their-schools-reopening-n1233286 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/school-openings-across-globe-suggest-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks

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Schools could save on the added security necessary to walk the refs to their cars and protect them from the experts in the stands. 😀

You typically don't see "crossovers" all that much. Catholic parishes and their elementary schools and Catholic high schools often work like gang turf in the way that different parishes "supply" different high schools. Cathedral operates at a distinct disadvantage because it isn't a Catholic school in the sense that it has Catholic deanery schools that feed it. I think Guerin charges a flat tuition regardless of parish or even faith. They do offer a discount if the student's parents work for Marian University. In contrast, for LCC and LCSS, the question asked is "What is your registered parish?" In the case of LCSS, if that parish is within the Diocese of Lafayette-In-Indiana, there's a "Catholic diocesan" discount. If not, even if you are Catholic, it is considered "Other" and you pay a higher tuition rate. Also, LCSS has multi-kid discounts for parishioners in the "local" parishes ... Blessed Sacrament, St. Ann, St. Boniface, St. Lawrence, St. Mary Cathedral and St. Thomas Aquinas. These are the local parishes that provide direct support of LCSS, so if you have two or more kids in the system AND are registered parishioners of those parishes you get the "Catholic discount" as well as the "local parish" discount. I'm not as familiar with Chatard and Roncalli and whether they look more like LCC or Guerin with regard to tuition and potential discounts for non-local students. By the way, as an interesting comparison, the base tuition of LCC and Guerin are about $9,500 and $15,000 respectively.