Dog wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:37 pmNope, just still "play where you live". If you want to open-enroll at George Bailey Academy for the academic opportunities, then so be it. Just play your Varsity sports where you live still. If you live there, why would that be an inconvenience? If the state did this, open enrollment for "academic opportunities" would dry up like the Aral Sea (and we'd get back to the MN model instead of the club hockey-like teams we're seeing).O-townClown wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:05 pmSo if a kid open enrolls to another HS they can't play Varsity sports?
Minnesota was at the forefront of open enrollment so I don't see that even being legal.
While I agree there needs to be some tweaks to open enrollment rules, this is looking at it with blinders on. So a family decides that George Bailey Academy is a better fit than their local public HS - academically, socially and athletically. The student aspires to play varsity sports but wants to play on teams with his new friends and for his new school. Instead, he is forced to make the decision to stop playing sports or go play with kids he may have moved on from in the first place. “Why would that be an inconvenience?” Really? Think about the logistics. Getting the student from one school to another every day for practice, games, etc. How about the awkwardness of the athlete going back to the school they left? Not to mention the backlash when tryouts come around. Little chance he’s making that team over a student at the school. Although this example is public to private transfer, the points stand for public to public.
When an athlete/family makes the decision to move to another school, it should be done with all factors considered, including rules and ramifications if it doesn’t work out - for whatever reason and at whatever timing. Do your homework in advance and this doesn’t happen. In this case, sitting a year (not even) at the age he is at is not the end of the world, nor would it be for any level player. Play JV, learn your life lesson, be a leader by continuing the work ethic that got you to this point, then tear up varsity when the door opens. The open enrollment ship has sailed. Needs improvement to prevent other ridiculously egregious transfers that some of his future teammates have done, but it’s here to stay.