You hit on a point that goaded me when the "private school membership in the VHSL" argument raged a few years ago.
Public school books and records are just that, public! Slip on over to LCA and ask to see their records.
I respect that. Private schools and their niche are a choice that is and should be available. And being private, they should be able to keep their business private.
Here is the contradiction. LCA wanted it both ways. They want to be a private school, but they wanted the benefits and opportunities that public school athletics offer. These same public schools that are transparent, "by law".
Nobody, and I mean nobody will ever be able challenge LCA about their student eligibility records and win. Yeah, I know, they have to submit the same student athlete forms to the VHSL as public schools. Challenge a public school about the validity and eligibility of a student athlete, and you can force irrefutable proof. What do you think would happen at LCA? They would produce whatever document you need to see to prove their argument, and that's the end of it.
I just hate it that LCA, and any other private school that eventually joins the VHSL, can not truthfully be held to the same standards as public schools. They are protected by the same legal system that they used to force their admission into the VHSL.
(Incidently, I do not fault the VHSL for settling the case. There was NO choice. LCA could have, and would have destroyed the VHSL economically.) (And that fact goads me even more.)
Public school books and records are just that, public! Slip on over to LCA and ask to see their records.
I respect that. Private schools and their niche are a choice that is and should be available. And being private, they should be able to keep their business private.
Here is the contradiction. LCA wanted it both ways. They want to be a private school, but they wanted the benefits and opportunities that public school athletics offer. These same public schools that are transparent, "by law".
Nobody, and I mean nobody will ever be able challenge LCA about their student eligibility records and win. Yeah, I know, they have to submit the same student athlete forms to the VHSL as public schools. Challenge a public school about the validity and eligibility of a student athlete, and you can force irrefutable proof. What do you think would happen at LCA? They would produce whatever document you need to see to prove their argument, and that's the end of it.
I just hate it that LCA, and any other private school that eventually joins the VHSL, can not truthfully be held to the same standards as public schools. They are protected by the same legal system that they used to force their admission into the VHSL.
(Incidently, I do not fault the VHSL for settling the case. There was NO choice. LCA could have, and would have destroyed the VHSL economically.) (And that fact goads me even more.)