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Private High Schools Recruting for Sports>
Since winning the state championship a few weeks ago, I have heard a lot of people talking about how private high schools recruit their football teams. As a Prep alumnist and father of a current Prep student, I know that this does not happen. What do you think, do they recruit for sports?
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As another Prep grad - I do know that CP does not have the school district boundaries as the public schools do so they can accept students from around the entire Omaha metro. I actually thought that CP did 'recruit' players.
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I am also a Prep grad and I remember hearing about this when I was in school. Some claimed that we had recruited a basketball player at the time. I don't read too much into this. I know Prep sent students to my grade school to encourage us to apply and look at Prep. Maybe they tell some kids of the work/aid program and say you can come to school here eventhough you thought you could not afford the tuition. Iremember students from various area high schools "recruiting" at my grade school.
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I do remember being recruited at my grade school where a bunch of different are a schools came and talked to us. I'm pretty sure it was all about school though. It just seems to me that people who go to public schools, try to make the fact that private schools recruit, and turn it around so that it is only for athletic purposes.
In Lincoln, even public high schools recruited because of open enrollement, even though it was official not supposed to happen. When I was in school in the mid 90's everyone knew that the best basketball players transferred to NE and best football players to SE. The NE basketball coach was even rumored to give junior high kids rides home after school...
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Idk, maybe I'm jsut shocked to find out that high schools are turning into being all about sports. I mean I just cant believe that kids who are freakin 13 and 14 are being recruited to play sports. I mean a lot can change in those years from frosh and soph teams to varsity, who knows, if their big in 8th grade doesn't mean they'll be big in 11 and 12 grade for varsity.
Not to dispute your opinion, but that is just pure jealousy on the part of other DSM-area schools for the last 30+ years. When Valley started doing really well (after open enrollment), they were accused of recruiting as well.Ingersoll1978 wrote:I can say Dowling in West Des Moines surely does. That's why they have won many championships in football and basketball. Maybe Nebraska has laws or something against this...I dunno.
What it all boils down to, imo, is that the most successful schools are generally the schools that have the most parental involvement, and more often than not, those are the private schools, as well as the public schools in the affluent suburbs.
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It is well known that Dowling pulls some of the top athletes from all over the metro. There are poor north and east Des Moines kids that could never afford to attend a private catholic school, but some how miraculously end up there...starting for the basketball or football team.
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