Schools were not designed to be a part of the "great free enterprise system" you mention. The free enterprise system is amoral, something you do not want your schools and kids to be. And a child's education is too important to leave open to the vagaries of the free market. You see education as a business, I see it as an institution meant to encourage the development of kids of all abilities, not just the chosen few. Applying the "survival of the fittest" mentality doesn't work when your dealing with an 8 year old with a learning disability, at least in a civilized society it doesn't.flatontheice wrote:
Here is how I look at it and I hope you can get help for your bitterness. A private high school education is just another part of the great free enterprise system in the US. It just is what it is, expensive, and debatable as to the long term benefits. Calling it "discrimination" because there are minimum entrance standards is a comical argument at best. Is Murray's Steakhouse "discriminatory" because the price of a filet is 3x what it should be? Do you call air travel "discriminatory" because its faster and more expensive than driving? Don't come on here an pontificate your so called expertise on the "discriminatory" intentions of private schools just because you are upset they win hockey games. It really has nothing to do with how administrators at these schools even view the world. Hockey is a minor and I mean minor part of their average day. I would be much more upset at the Ken Pauly's ,Vanellis and Larson's of the world as they are the ones that self feed their own egos under the guise of being great coaches when deep down they know they have all the cards and the jokers too. And lets be clear, I am not calling them bad coaches simply pointing out that they come to battle every day with a gun for a knife fight. I don't know if they are good coaches and probably never will.
The private schools have set up their own system with resulting dynamics that are completely different than public schools, so why would it be so "unfair" for the MSHSL to enact policies that would correct for this?
I'm sure the coaches you mentioned are good coaches, they have been successful.