How do private high schools get so many good athletes?

Public School A.D. wrote:

ataglance wrote:

Since your son is interested in attending our school (and he's a great HS quarterback) we're only going to charge you $10k per year, and we're going to make sure that you qualify for $10k grant in financial aid, but this is in no way an athletic scholarship. It is simply need based. .................................................. (We need a good QB.)

and I can do the same thing without evening wasting time talking about those financial things

No you can't. Black people attend your school, but the private school is like 98% white. You can't compete with that. Also maybe the private school matches up better to "our family morals" yadda yadda.. Also my kid will be in school with kids who's parents are doctors, lawyers, and the well to do.. If he goes to your school he could end up dating some construction workers daughter. Gasp!

do you thing I worry about any private school basketball team made up of short white rich kids?

ataglance wrote:

Public School A.D. wrote:

and I can do the same thing without evening wasting time talking about those financial things

No you can't. Black people attend your school, but the private school is like 98% white. You can't compete with that. Also maybe the private school matches up better to "our family morals" yadda yadda.. Also my kid will be in school with kids who's parents are doctors, lawyers, and the well to do.. If he goes to your school he could end up dating some construction workers daughter. Gasp!

Construction workers can be very well to do! Many Lawyers are broke. Seems like you are stereotyping people like most on this thread do with public vs private school kids.

Public School A.D. wrote:

do you thing I worry about any private school basketball team made up of short white rich kids?

Duh! that's how we know who the athletes are. We have some black kids here, they just play all our sports so we can win. If you have 3 out of 5 bball players that are black, and a couple of black WRs and RBs, that's acceptable to most. Also those kids are two and three sport athletes, so we get bball/fball/ and some track work out of them.

Mitty HS in San Jose, CA asks at least some parents for "An extra year of tuition so we can give athletic scholarships". Brother in law said no, he was pretty pissed.

ataglance wrote:

Duh! that's how we know who the athletes are. We have some black kids here, they just play all our sports so we can win. If you have 3 out of 5 bball players that are black, and a couple of black WRs and RBs, that's acceptable to most. Also those kids are two and three sport athletes, so we get bball/fball/ and some track work out of them.

Racist much?

I think the premise of the question is false. I don't know any of the high schools at NXN and don't want to go down the list, but the top three men's high schools were all public.

For the British and international readers out there, public schools are free for everyone in the US and private schools cost money. In the UK a "public school" is like a type of American private school, so I could see there being some confusion.

In NYC, where I grew up, I don't think the private schools were as good as the public schools at any sport (maybe some esoteric ones), because the private schools were too small. But we never/rarely competed against them, they have their own league.

I don't know where the OP got this idea. LOL Private HSs absolutely can and do give athletic scholarships. Now, its not as widespread as some might imagine but BB/FB stars and depending on what sport the specific HS might prioritize, odd other kids get money at times too. I'd guess very few get full scholarships but to say they can't or don't give athletes $$ is ridiculous. It is fair to say though, that even at privates where sports are a big deal, most kids are not getting anything for playing sports.

Also, they have the best teams because they prioritize sports, hire quality staff, recruit athletes and in many cases draw from deep pocketed families that have seen that their kid has every opportunity to be good at sports.

Also, the post above is one of the weirdest LR thread spam bumps ever.