heimer wrote:You can argue this all you want, but you're required to overlook the differences to make your argument.
Sure, Thompson and the Cass schools (let's not leave out Kindred) will grow with parents that live there but work in big cities. The difference is they still live there. They choose to live in the school district their kids attend.
Privates have no defined districts. They draw from the entire community. Thompson and Northern Cass draw from their district.
Stating that those schools have even a similar advantage is ridiculous. No one who lives in Fargo is sending their kid to Northern Cass because they can't make the team at Davies. But they will send them to Oak Grove. No one who can't make Red River is going out to Thompson, but if you don't make Century, Shiloh is an option.
All you are doing is, again, a tried and true tactic of the status quo: muddy the issue with bedroom communities somehow enjoying the same fruits of the private school poisonous tree. Classic tactic on this board. "Oh, you think this is an problem, we'll look at this." Works too often.
In the end, the solution is the same anyway, so what's the freaking point? Form the third class, and when the bedroom communities' enrollment growth pushes them over the line, they will move up. But the privates have advantages right now that FAR outpace the bedrooms. To equate the two shows a complete lack of knowledge and a closed-mindedness typical of every B shot fan.
just so you know heimer I'm not arguing....but a thread like this gives opportunity to discuss all the lop-sidedness which I believe exists throughout the state in
1. bedroom comms
2. privates
3. Native areas
4. oil towns (although this could be diminishing)
but much more prolific in privates is what your saying....I hear you