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BlueKel_rivals210266

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Late to high school talk. Observations:

St X has a lot of blue collar families that send kids there. Ford, GE, construction etc

Knew personally a kid that was thrown off a sports team because a coach saw an open liquor bottle in his car the day after prom. Zero tolerance.

I personally know of a kid at Trinity that got busted with drugs on campus with other kids. Daddy got called to school and he asked if police notified. They weren't. He was livid. He went and reported it and bitched about T covering it up. Withdrew kid from school and sent to military school. (Two notes: it was more than pot. This was in 90s)

Male is odd. Does well academically, but gets quite a range of students. JCTMS, Barrett, and Johnson are feeder schools. Not the same rigorous academics at all 3. The seniors on the football team were beasts at JCTMS together. That championship was easy to see coming. Should have been a three-peat. Random; Ibn Green has two daughters on basketball team.

Manual. I went there before it became a big academic school. Based on the kids they take, I'm shocked they compete so well in so many sports.

Atherton is doing better on tests and academic profile. It's getting up there with Male, Ballard, and Eastern. But damn is it full of Highlands hippies.
 
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SAECATFAN

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If I could switch the conversation to Lexington for a moment, I had no idea so many there sent their kids to Virgina & New England boarding schools until a few years ago (Lexington wife informed me). I mean, that still blows my mind a bit...

It's cool, I just couldn't imagine not wanting your teenage kid at home.
 
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drxman1

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So what is the endpoint that you really measure the perks of a private school versus public? ACT/SAT test scores, admission to prestigious colleges, professional degrees?

Sort of seems like in an academic setting, kids of successful well educated parents may be more likely to succeed just based off their own DNA. If you send a bunch of them to private school, its kind of skewing the sample. Would these kids also not have done well at a public school?

Or is it more for the parents, getting to boast that my little Wellington attends the Balls and Shaft academy.
 
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anthonys735 said:
But it started over a decade ago, right?
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-Was really noting the somewhat recent passing of Donald(the more honest of the two apparently), but the initial planning probably started back when Moses wore short pants.

-Not buying this 3/30 fill-in date either. We're stuck with [poop] for who knows how long, but at least we'll get some quality UCL posts out of it.. [smoke]

-Common sense angle--> proceed with the underground parking, put in some shops and restaurant/bar options, and make it a destination area like most cities would do.

anthonys735 said:
-Sounds like Poythress is pretty close to being back.
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:pray:

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Saw somebody drew up schematic for an amphitheater at Centre Point. Seems like a great idea, zero chance would ever happen.
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Honestly, one helluva idea here, Doc. Would be a boon for TNL, and/or a summer concert series, but yeah..makes too much sense for our fair city. imo.
 
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anthonys735

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Like I said the generation before us hit the private schools hard because of integration. Catholic schools were still affordable at that point as joey pointed out because of Priest/Nunns. Carried over because of tradition and frankly not a lot of good public school options in the city. Plus a lot of catholics are ironically racist. I had 3-4 AAs in class the 12 years of school before college, total. Grade school I don't know if we had any.

Great fish fries and festivals though. Beer and gambol. Not sure the quality of education is better if you look at the better public schools but Valley, Doss, Iroquois, Western, Southern are all pretty rough schools. It was traditional or private for most families.
 
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BlueKel said:
It was on campus. I think they have a zero tolerance policy regarding drugs/alcohol on campus.
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They all landed at DeSales. Much looser. Weed got you a nice suspension. Don't recall any one really caring about booze. Clark?
 
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My daughter was slated for Moore. False, she went to Whitefield and it was reasonable.
 
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anthonys735

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Moore. Damn I forgot about that place. Yeah, some really bad sketchy high schools. Never heard of that other place.
 
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anthonys735

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Liking this guy more and more everyday. He's really good when he's unscripted but a little rough of the prompter.
 
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anthonys735 said:
Moore. Damn I forgot about that place. Yeah, some really bad sketchy high schools. Never heard of that other place.
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I'll never forget about Moore because they had a kid my senior year who shot 216 in the 7th regional golf tournament at Seneca. People were gathered around the scoreboard because they had to see it for themselves.
 
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That Jay Williams video brings to mind something I've thought about a lot. Does anybody else think McGee is sitting somewhere on a pile of hush money given how often that hand is played there?
 
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mashburned

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Every guy on my floor from Louisville was mad racist af except the two guys that wore Jordan clothes, so that's why my views are biased. They just didn't grow up around any black people so they talked wreckless af and it was always awkward. They loved hazing and singing which was odd to me. Like old country tunes. I swore off Louisville ever since and hate driving through it, tbh. Just because the roads are in horrible shape, and it's ugly af to look at. The people seem hospitable enough. The food and shopping pales in comparison to NKY/CIN so luckily there is no reason for Lex area folks to travel there, imho.
 
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anthonys735 said:
They all landed at DeSales. Much looser. Weed got you a nice suspension. Don't recall any one really caring about booze. Clark?
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I mean, Budweiser wasnt exactly sold in vending machines but when half of the faculty either hung out in the coaches office drinking a few beers throughout the day, or having students drive to Circle K to buy them cans of dip- rules got broken and people looked the other way with regards to alcohol.

Drugs usually got you ding'd if you brought it on campus with you- which was pretty stupid, but obviously happened on a daily basis. Think the standard was a week suspension for the first time and then you got the hook for good if you still couldnt pull it together.

The only immediate, like call the parents right now, suspension I remember was when a kid had weapons in his camo-backpack from a hunting trip the previous weekend, and walked right in the front door with it. Guy served his year elsewhere and ended up graduating with us still.

Chattanooga is a big time boarding school city. The public schools are absolute trash. So you either go the private school route in town, or board your kid off somewhere in Connecticut or Virginia.
 
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Agree with SAE, can't wrap my head around sending your kid off to boarding school.

Don't agree booze should be expulsion. That's overboard if it was 1st offense. I honestly can't recall a booze related suspension in high school.
 
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We had some kids get suspended for like a month in 7th grade for getting shipwreck drunk and passing out on the soccer field. #JessamineStrong
 
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drxman1

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I can confirm that driving a Porsche is in fact fun as hell. And if by chance you can take Wildcatchad for a thrill ride, well then that's just gravy.
 
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Bunch of boarding schools up here. Really, really bizarre.

A lot of my attendings send their kids 45-60 minutes away to these schools. I don't understand it at all. A few folks I've met up here attended these schools, and it's basically a status things. No better ACT/SAT scores, but they think they need it to get into their little hipster liberal arts school that provides such a great education.

Folks up here are such Northeast education snobs. They are mortified that I went to (gasp) public school in southern Kentucky. They literally cannot comprehend that I can count without my hands and tie my shoes given such an educational hardship.
 
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catfan in loserville

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wildcat1973 said:
Doss is also probably the hardest school in the city to find/get to. Even with GPS. The Cherokee Park Bermuda Triangle of the South End.
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As far as south end schools go its PRP and everybody else, Butler makes a claim, but any school on Crums Lane ain't touching the Ridge. If Anthony and Dante were born 5-7 years later then they too, would have been PRP alums, it's basically a Schembari institution. Big A and all the brothers except for my pops.


The where is Doss guy is a moron, it's on St Andrews Church Road, BIg A's house and mine are literally 2 minutes away from it and 90% of you guys have been to that neighborhood. Hardwood Forest, right behind Bobby Nichols. Also right next to Waverly hospital, which I'm sure every man that graduated from HS before 2000 has some sweet BS story about their "trippy" experience there.

1931 is the state highway number for St Andrews, also known as Greenwood Road once you go through the Dixie light. Bermuda Triangle, Roll Eyes. Its cozy PRP, managed to stay classy while Shively and Valley Station have went to the dumpster. Sky Blue neiborhoods all the way over to Incarnation are still some of the safest in the area.

Btw, The St Andrews traffic is so bad for two reasons, the Blanton Lane light has been and always will be ****, and every moron that drives through there thinks it's quicker to go St Andrews, Arnoldtown, Old Third to get to Valley Station then it is to take Dixie, Gagel to Bethany. 90% of the traffic on Arnoldtown is by people that don't live on the road at all.

BBdK is right though, if he is at KFB by Khalil's you might as well take the Gene Snyder to New Cut route, down that back stretch of 265 between Dixie and Stonestreet, you could red line a Porsche and barely be in the flow of traffic, 90+ mph FTW.
 
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