You know what? I really do not care what they do at this point. We will adapt. I might lose some students whose sole identity rests on a KSHSAA state championship or I could gain some kids who would rather play 40 basketball games instead of 20 and not have to worry about scheduling for "seeding" purposes. I am really sad that there seems to be this push to put the private schools together in one division away from the public schools. All the years (12) I coached at public schools, I never cared whether we competed against public or private schools, I just knew we had to get better than we were. My first wrestling coaching experience was a humbling 76-0 defeat at the hands of SFT. It was a hard pill to swallow, but I never took them off the schedule because that would be CS. We just tried to get better. If we are forced to move up in classification, I will just challenge my students that much harder to work that much harder to prove a point. The point is that hard work will take you further in life than whining about fairness will.

I can't wait for the IOC to kick the United States out of the olympics. Maybe all of those other countries who can't recruit like the US can will finally win some stuff. What they might do is only allow the US to count .75 medals for every one they get.

I sound bitter here because I am. TMP is supported by 8 local parishes and no tuition. Translation: if you tithe to one of those parishes, your tuition is paid for. Meaning: we don't refuse any Catholic parishoners, special ed or otherwise. We also have 60 international students who participate in very few sports and keep us from making the almighty Standard of Excellence in reading every year. Because of that fact, we basically are already up one classification as it is and are only about 20 students from being 4A again or perhaps 4A1. So put us wherever. We are just going to work at getting better.

Surprisingly, we do very well in math.

I am sending a copy of "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut to all of the public schools who vote in favor of this measure.