Originally Posted by
Bigrayok
I brought this up in a previous post on this subject, but I wonder how this rule will affect a public school like Bethany where Kent Shellenberger, who was the chair of the committee, is the Superintendant. Bethany is a public school, but over 60 percent of the district's students are transfers from other districts. Bethany used to be mediocre at best in sports but it has seen an influx of transfers in the last 20 years or so from other districts such as Putnam City, Oklahoma City, and Yukon. Parents literally camp outside the administration building in August to get a spot in line to enroll their child for one of the available transfer spots.
Putnam City West used to be a football powerhouse in the 70's and 80's. In the past, 120 boys from 10th thru 12th grade used to go out for football. Now with 9th grade added, there are only about 60 out for football. In recent years it has been one of the worst football teams in 6A. I know the demographics of West's district has changed considerably in the past 25 years, especially with a large number of single parent families in Section 8 housing, but I wonder how many Bethany football or basketball players live in the Putanam City West district. I work with a man whose two sons lived in the West district, but played basketball at Bethany. I know a number of people who lived in the P.C. West district but their kids played football at Bethany.
It is not only the private schools that are able to control their enrollment, some public school districts are able to do so also. I remember when Asher was a baseball powerhouse under Murel Bowen, but it came out after years of success that a lot of their players lived outside of the district. I hope this rule does not only affect a few disliked private schools such as McGuinnes, Heritage Hall, or Victory Christian.
Bigray in Ok
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