Trinity going bankrupt?

[Al SC]

I’d rather talk football ... and I’m fine with people feeling it’s ludicrous for tiny programs to play private powerhouses with huge kids.

I’m NOT cool with low key, subliminal jabs with stereotypes about schools just because the rosters are almost all black. I won’t change anyone’s minds ... but I also won’t hesitate to call it out when it happens. There’s no white person here that can say they don’t hear foul racist shit when we’re the only people in the room.

Calling someone you don't personally know racist online is BS in my opinion.

A reason you might assume a specific race is getting a scholarship to one of the religious schools is the mere fact that many of them did not attend the private schools before high school. Changing to private at high school may happen at times for academic reasons but not as often as you see with athletes.

Coaching for 18 years from 3rd grade to 9th grade in basketball I can attest that most of the kids did not attend Trinity or LN feeder schools. I can also tell you one of my players, when I coached a public school feeder team, father told me he was waiting to see how much CBC would offer his son before deciding on which high school. He ended up attending CBC & is now playing college basketball. This family could of afforded tuition but probably didn't want to overpay for the school. Saying this to show that just because someone won't go to the school without financial assistance may not be because they can't afford it but they don't think $40k or more is worth it.

And yes athletes get scholarships in high school no matter how they spin it that is exactly what is going on.

 

[freezeoption]

Greene county has the largest population of foster kids in the state. When we lived by Springfield we took adoption classes and that is what they said. We fostered for a when and then adopted several children.

 

[sw5890]

Sort of related subject. On KWTO last week they had a person on from the Greene country school district on and apparently they have the highest rate in the state for homeless students? They did not call it homeless and the term escapes me. Needless to say I was surprised. They claim 9%.

Maybe there is different data that says something else but according to this from DESE, Springfield has very high homelessness but not the highest either by percent or total number. St Louis City Schools is a mile ahead of everywhere else with over 5,000 students or almost 25% of students categorized as homeless. Springfield showed just about 6%. In terms of % they are not even the worst in SWMO. Camdenton is almost double Springfield which kind of surprises me. Branson, Carthage and Neosho are all just slightly worse than Springfield as well.

 

[ChaoticFanatic]

Maybe in the previous post they were referring to raw numbers and not a percentage. Who knows.

 

[sw5890]

Maybe in the previous post they were referring to raw numbers and not a percentage. Who knows.

I thought that as well because I believe SPS is the largest school district in the state. But STL had 4x the raw homeless numbers and KC was just slightly ahead both in numbers and percent as well. Either way it's not a great situation for any district that is pink on the map. I'm sure there are different factors to each of these districts - in STL and to a lesser extent KC you basically have the poorest part of the metro carved into it's own little district that is probably mostly black. In Springfield it's an entire metro but that metro has an unusual amount of generational white poverty especially in the northwest part of town. Branson has a lot of very poor rural areas. Carthage has a large migrant/hispanic population. Neosho has both hispanics and the rural areas. Sedalia is another really bad one at 16% but I am not familiar with that area so I don't know what might be driving that.

 

[Peter Quill]

I have asked KWTO for the transcript but I agree it’s bad for all parties involved.

 

[bullitpdq68]

Sort of related subject. On KWTO last week they had a person on from the Greene country school district on and apparently they have the highest rate in the state for homeless students? They did not call it homeless and the term escapes me. Needless to say I was surprised. They claim 9%.

I have been to a school board meeting were this is discussed, I heard the term "couch surfing" used. Basically the kids are not homeless, but they are not living at home either but are living with friends and sleeping on couches. I guess they call it unstable housing.

 

[NorthWestBleachers]

Sort of related subject. On KWTO last week they had a person on from the Greene country school district on and apparently they have the highest rate in the state for homeless students? They did not call it homeless and the term escapes me. Needless to say I was surprised. They claim 9%.

There's definitely SOMETHING going on in Greene County... Have you watched LIVE PD?! Train. Wreck.