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Let's just say that the video's speak for themselves. And the second video, that is a post game interview with a player doesn't fit your cut and paste feel good "Athletics at Xavier" post.
What did you use to decide what grades the kids get? I have an idea, but I hope I'm wrong......
The first video doesn't really add anything to your view about the majority of kids not should have being allowed to finish high school.
Again, a few basketball players pushing each other around means that they are all thugs. Hockey players leave blood soaked into the ice and they are just tough players. Tyler Evans is just a misunderstood, great kid.'
Sounds a bit fishy to me.......
Please quit babbling about Tyler, or a sport like hockey where fighting is acceptable and part of the game.
Are Tu Holloway & Mark Lyons these fine young men that you speak of that set the standards for a school like Xavier?
Quotes like: "We got disrespected a little bit here before the game" "We Got Gangstas In The Locker Room, Not Thugs"
BTW: Tu Holloway spent three years at Hempstead High School in Hempstead, New York, then transferred to Harmony Prep in Cincinnati. College Basketball scouts love Harmony Prep, but for some reason an Attorney General by the name of Mr. Dann doesn't think much of the program. What do you think, should we dig deeper?
Attorney General Dann Files Fourth Charter School Suit
Says Harmony Community School, in Cincinnati, must be held accountable for academic, financial, ethical failures
JANUARY 18, 2008
CINCINNATI - Citing almost 600 pages of evidence that chronicle abject academic failure, gross financial mismanagement, ethical lapses, and what amounts to consumer fraud, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann today asked the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to declare that Harmony Community School in Cincinnati is a failed charitable trust. Mr. Dann traveled to the Hamilton County Courthouse and personally filed the suit, the fourth his office has lodged against failing charter schools in the state.
In his pleadings the Attorney General alleges that Harmony has failed to accomplish it primary charitable purpose: educating its students, despite receiving 31.9 million taxpayer dollars since 1998 and asks the court to terminate Harmony’s charitable trust, to permanently enjoin Harmony and its governing authority from operating a community school, and to redirect the state funding Harmony has been wasting to public and charter schools that actually succeed in educating kids.
“During my time in office I have rarely encountered a more egregious abuse of the public trust or the public treasury than is documented in these pages,” Mr. Dann said while holding aloft the 600 pages of documents he had filed in support of the state’s case against Harmony. “An objective review of the evidence we filed today underscores the need for us to act and act now to free the students who are trapped in this failed institution.”
The Attorney General said he was unfazed by critics who contend that he should not use his charitable trust authority to hold Harmony and other failing charter schools accountable because the General Assembly passed legislation in 2006 giving the Ohio Department of Education the power to do so. “Unfortunately, even in the best case scenario, ODE would not be able to close Harmony until July of 2009—and that’s only if the school chooses not to stay open. As a result, this school could continue to operate, and continue to fail and waste precious human and financial resources for years to come. I cannot, in good conscience allow that to happen,” Mr. Dann noted.
“The fact is, if Harmony was another type of charitable trust, if it were a non-profit hospital that routinely injured or killed patients or a charity that misused donations, the same people who are criticizing me for holding community schools accountable would be clamoring for me to act immediately and decisively,” Mr. Dann said.
“Yet they want me to look the other way and abdicate my responsibility to uphold the law when a community school like Harmony, which agreed to abide by the same regulations that govern every other charitable trust in the state, blatantly ignores and violates those rules. That is something I will not do and it is something the people of Ohio should not accept.”
Documents filed in support of the suit paint a stark picture of Harmony’s repeated failure to meet its charitable purpose.
An F in Academics
Harmony has persistently lagged behind the performance of the Cincinnati City Schools, from which it draws most of its funding and students, with test scores averaging 19 points below the district’s.
Harmony’s test scores were 30.9 points below those of the Cincinnati Public Schools and were a disturbing 41.7 points below state averages for the 2006—2007 school year.
The school has met only 5 of the 53 applicable indicators for school performance.
Its Performance Index Scores have been persistently abysmal, averaging 46.73 out of a possible 120, an institutional G.P.A. of a very low “F.”;
It failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress standards for the last four school years.
An F in Financial Responsibility and Accountability
In April of 2007 Auditor Mary Taylor found that Harmony’s books were unauditable for several fiscal years.
She or her predecessors issued numerous findings against the school and its board for:
Making illegal and undocumented expenditures of public funds;
Failing to comply with withholding requirements, including the failure to remit retirement contributions withheld from its employees;
Failing to meet State and contractual accounting requirements.
In addition, the state has sought and received multiple judgments against Harmony for repeatedly failing to pay its taxes and other obligations, including $221,000 in unemployment taxes.
Harmony has been penalized by the federal government for failing to comply with basic requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.
An F in Ethics
Officials have totally ignored legal proceedings filed against the school resulting in the garnishment of its bank accounts.
Officials have endangered kids by skirting fire safety laws and then firing a teacher who complained about the practices.
The school rigged its test results for the 2004—2005 school year.
Attorney General Dann also noted that while his office had not filed a consumer fraud case against Harmony, it was clear that the institution used a slick—and largely fictional—marketing program to con parents into sending their kids to the school. “In their mission statement they promise to “enable young adult men and women to become enlightened, articulate, decent and compassionate citizens of their global community within a safe environment,” he said. “That statement would be laughable, if the consequences of Harmony’s failed promises weren’t so serious for the kids and families who succumbed to them.”
They were private, and the last one he attended is famous for their basketball alums. One is in Wolfeboro NH, where I just happen to have job underway. And the other is South Kent State.
Like I told you, recruiting is turning into the norm for high schools now. And private schools can give scholarships and not even mess with dealing with the quantification process.
South Kent Basketball college placements
http://www.southkentschool.org/article.php?id=108
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The reference to Evans and hockey is relevant, as you were not only talking about their alleged diminished intellect, but their character. Without knowing anything really about them. It was humorous to see your defense of Tyler Evans while deriding a whole bunch of youngsters who got into a shoving match (okay, two punches were sort of thrown, one of them looked like it landed). Not much of a scuffle even really.
Sounds like the administration at Harmony may have had some issues. Does that make every student who attended a worthless being? I highly doubt it.......
But with that, I am out for the night. Meds are kicking in from my surgery on Tuesday. Double hernia didn't feel good to have, and doesn't feel great right now after! But I have 4 weeks off work to have fun chatting with ya! Have a good night, Jim.
Respectfully.
im not sure what the beef is with you and sports. if you want to argue why, we as a society, put sports at such a high value, its a valid discussion but not even relevant here.
an education is a education. some are there to get educated in sciences, others in sports. if playing sports is a profession, than it is possible to get a education in that sport. there is nothing inherently wrong with going to college strictly to play a sport. i say that because im not gonna pretend that any of these D1 ''students'' go to class. but so what.
would i rather there was a developmental league? sure. would i rather the colleges werent allowed to basically get away with slave labor while acting as football and basketballs minor leage system. yep.
but that isnt the ''thug'' players fault or problem to fix. nor does it make me give a shit about this pissy lil fight. big deal. humans fight. sports are emotional. anyone who gets surprised or in a uproar when shit like this occurs needs there head checked. sports are best played at a primal level. its extremely irrational to expect people acting in a highly charged environment, with near primal rage going, to all of a sudden be rational when a fight erupts. its nature. get over it.
Respectfully.
Oral Roberts stuns No. 8 Xavier on road.
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Oral-Roberts-stuns-Xav…
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