No more 7A schools in AL

Looks like they're still keeping the 32 team format for 6A.

It'll be interesting to see how it works out. Seems like private schools were winning a lot recently, so I guess that's why they made the change.

Spend more time developing players, games should be secondary. That's how Europeans approach youth soccer.

I wonder how much money Pinson Valley and Clay paid off AHSAA to keep them out of 6A

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I wonder how much money Pinson Valley and Clay paid off AHSAA to keep them out of 6A

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Both have never been close to being top 32 by enrollment. The cutoff was Buckhorn at 1032. Clay is sitting at 952, Pinson at 740.

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The will still play public schools. Only the playoffs will be different

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Madison Academy entering a world of shite now that they can't beat up on various small county high schools.

Anyone else associated with a private a school? What is your opinion? I think I’m most worried of schedule changes to the regular season if the public schools just flat out decide to not play the private schools from a commute perspective.

My wife deals with the band so I am curious what this will do to impact my Friday nights.

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When you fix a problem that didn't need to be fixed. So dumb.

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Public and private institutions have separated in Tennessee athletics for a while. They still play each other in the regular season, so it doesn’t really affect travel much and I think it’s a more fair system because public and private schools are materially different.

NC just went from 4A to 8A this year. It was needed when 4A before ranged from 1200 students to over 3000 in the cities like Charlotte. Each division has 60 teams in it I believe now. There are some private schools that compete in public school leagues and playoffs but they have to meet certain conditions(supposedly). The majority of private schools paly in a different league/playoffs that goes 1A t0 4A.

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As long as public education continues to be micromanaged with the focus chasing numbers and not learning the decline in public schools will continue to enrollment decline.

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Yes. I think public education from the top down needs to deemphasizing macro-level metrics for success.

1. You can mostly predict "success" by just surveying the census demographics for the tracts that the school serves.

2. There is variability even within a demographic year-to-year. I would have been valedictorian of my brother's class full of cut ups but was barely in the top 10 of my own class.

School systems, especially in high school, waste a lot of instructional time taking tests due to various federal and state mandates to evaluate the school's performance. Reality is the school is going to perform relative to the quality of the inputs (the children) and the educators at the macro-level just don't matter all that much. Your child will have some good ones and some bad ones but it will balance out to a zero sum w/r/t educator quality. Your child's success starts in the home in terms of genes and upbringing.