re: Could Parkview beat Greenwood, Fayetteville or Bentonville?

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Ask any small town school in south Arkansas who finally has a good team of home grown talent that has to play PA, a school with a stacked recruited roster in all sports, for a championship. It should never happen. Make the academies play one another or larger schools with comparable talent. I’ve been pissed about this for years.

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Public schools recruit as well. Parkview has their pick of kids in the entire LRSD do they not? Aren’t they about as “private” as a “public” school can be?

Junction City ran off I don’t know how many titles some years back and they brought kids in from Louisiana. What’s the difference in them?

Rison back in the 90’s pulled kids from Pine Bluff. They were an animal of a program.

Why do you think Greenwood has been dominant for so long and Southside and Northside haven’t been worth much since the 90’s? People have moved their kids to a program that is a proven winner.

I’m looking at some scores and I don’t see many private schools left playing right now in lower classifications. I also don’t see any that won state titles.

I just find it hard to be upset at families that put their kids in private schools in the large metro populated areas. Its likely a better education and a safer environment. Much like the Fort Smith area families do with the Greenwood district.

I grew up in Arkansas public school. Felt like you did when I was younger. Now with my daughter, you couldn’t pay me to put her in a public school in the Tulsa Metro area. Not a chance. We do not have to recruit. Many of our programs are state title contending programs. Kids want to play at our school, there is absolutely no need to recruit. At our school, we have to worry about Union, Jenks, Bixby, and Owasso recruiting our football players or our girls basketball players. It’s a two way street.

Our kids also sign a “No Quit” clause. If a student athlete quits a sport during season, they risk getting kicked out of school. We also have summer pride with nearly every male and female taking part in that over each summer. That’s starts in 4th grade.

I can’t speak for Arkansas private schools, but at ours we have long tenured coaches in the major sports who are involved in all the youth school programs. Football runs the same offense that is run based starting in first grade. Basketball coaches have their hands in every elementary grades team. The kids at our school have been here playing together most of their lives, just as at public schools.

You’re more than entitled to your opinion, but just wanted to point out that public’s do just as much as what you claim as privates likely do.

You and I both know that Bolding likely isn’t a squeakily clean program runner at Parkview.