Nothing. But private schools have different resources per kid
Many privates have far fewer resources than publics. How should that factor in?
Maybe for special education but those kids don’t factor into private schools how they do public. Spin it how you want to but in general people going to schools like Providence Academy, BSM, Holy Angels, Hill Murray, TG, STA, etc have $$$. They can pay for camps and specialized training that those of us average folks can not.
For every school you mentioned there's a Martin Luther, Southwest Christian, Hillcrest, Immanual, MVL, where parents of modest means send their kids for religious centered education, often at great sacrifice to the family and without a care about athletics and although there might be occasional success on the athletic fields, it's just as likely or more that these teams are cupcakes on the public school schedule. Take a drive down New Ulm and watch the Cathedral kids walk 7 blocks to practice ina city park, the field itself on a hill. Or into the gym. And then head to the public high school and look at their facilities and equipment. Then tell me who has the advantage. I'm aware there are many schools, mostly metro based, populated by wealthy families might create seemingly unfair advantages. But to suggest all privates have the same advantages paints with an awfully broad and frankly ignorant brush.
There is a very big difference when you compare a school like Cathedral to the public school. The enrollment is like 6 times less. Basically when comparing the resources of a nine man team to any AAA school the 9 man will have considerably less resources. But guessing the resources at Cathedral are similar a school like Cromwell (aside from space).
The “resources”of the private religious schools is not what most people really have an issue with. But it sounds a lot better coming out of the mouth than the truth.
All privates have fewer resources from the state than publics. That’s the nature of a private school. And it shouldn’t factor in
Yup. And those schools shouldn’t have a very large factor. Which is why I said 1.1
Many of the kids who go to these schools are affiliated with a church and go to church every week. Those churches are affiliated with the schools and have grants that lower the cost of going to those schools.
All private have advantages
Nothing is ever fair my friend, including public schools. Even with the free/educated lunch equation, do you really think Richfield's 900 kids have the same advantages as Orono's 900 kids?
They do try to account for those differences by only counting kids receiving aid for school lunch as .6.
Ok, yes, most private schools do have advantages. I agree overall. My point is those advantages are a minor inconvenience compared to the emergence of prep schools masquerading as high schools. Gentry Academy has 120 kids....120!!!! Wonder how many of those 120 are attending that school for the STEM classes or drama program??
Correct.
Gentry is a private school
Right. Just like St. Agnes and Holy Angels are not the same as Providence Academy, despite all three being Catholic high schools.
It's not a fake school though, like Bishop Sycamore.
This is the key. As long as the kids are getting an actual education, I have no issue with any of them, even if they are more geared towards sports.
Gentry’s population should be pro rated so that they play 2a hockey
It's not, which is why open enrollment has largely eliminated the whole argument that private schools have a recruiting advantage. How many athletes at Minnetonka are open enrolled? How many players on the Hopkins basketball teams actually live in the district?
You tell me, you’re making the argument
Shattuck isn't "not allowed." They choose to play a 7 month long season against elite prep and junior programs all over North America rather than adhere to the restrictions of the MSHSL.
