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For those of you that say you will play only travel - how will you do that? I would think that at least in the Columbus area, the quality players not playing high school bad are few and far between. Who would you play? Where would you play? Don't see too many 16u tourneys in April and May......................

Coach Murph

with pay per play getting out of hand tourneys would pop up faster than a pimple on a 14 year old

 

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Add Mason to the list.

$100.00 - Middle School per Sport
$150.00 - High School per Sport

Heard it on the news last night. Part of a $6M budget cut. But more disturbing to me was the 19 teachers getting axed. Can only increase the Teacher - Student Ratio.

 

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Rumor is ours is going to be 500 to 600.00 a sport next year. Paid 250.00 this year.

 

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Does any one feel they have gotten there moneys worth (other than able to play)from pay per play?Did you dd learn any thing from playing (skill wise)?

 

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Neveragain ... nah, not a lot ... its mainly just a lot of fun for the girls, and helps get them ready for summer ball.

 

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Wow we are truly blessed :

Jonathan Alder located in Madison and Union County's

$0 to play

3rd lowest School Taxes in State

5-Straight Years of Academic Excellence !!

 

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How much do you pay in fund raising before it is considered pay to play?????

 

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Fairborn $ 150.00. One thousand dollars is unbelievable for school sports, I have no idea how families can pay that kind of money.

Long term, they won't. Nor should they. The prospect of HS ball gets dimmer every year due to pay to play pricing itself out of the market.

 

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Just curious, would the folks that have been doing the pay-to-play respond to this question, do you have more of the parents attitude that "if I'm paying this much for my kid to play, that they better be given more play time?" And if that is the case, and that's how the coach's have to handle this situation, does it become that the coach has to cut players so that he/she can give the kids enough play time. There's been talk about our school going that route, and I'm wondering if this becomes more of a headache for a coach if this is the mentality of the parents especially if you have too many on your team...

 

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Just curious, would the folks that have been doing the pay-to-play respond to this question, do you have more of the parents attitude that "if I'm paying this much for my kid to play, that they better be given more play time?" And if that is the case, and that's how the coach's have to handle this situation, does it become that the coach has to cut players so that he/she can give the kids enough play time. There's been talk about our school going that route, and I'm wondering if this becomes more of a headache for a coach if this is the mentality of the parents especially if you have too many on your team...

No, and they're very careful on their wording. Here everyone is calling it "pay to play", however if you ask anyone in the school system it's actually "pay to participate". If you actually talk to someone about it that's involved in the schools and you say pay to play, they will be quick to correct you to pay to participate.

 

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Thank you Buck. Actually, it never even crossed my mind when it's referred to "pay to play", and that does sound like what it says (entitlement), so it probably is better to word it as "pay to participate"... lol

 

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At one time it was a Privilege to play H.S. sports, Nowadays only the Privileged can afford to play.

The schools who are implementing the Play for Pay are opening up a Pandora's Box, where by your DD may be Good Enough to Pay! But she is not Good Enough to Play!

As a smart consumer how many of you go out to a store and simply hand them several Hundred $$$Dollars$$$ to purchase an item only to get home and find that you never recieved what you have purchased?

Now with you Receipt in hand do you:

A. Stay at home and say nothing "No Big Deal"

B. Return to the Store voice you concerns
and get and the item you purchased.

C. Return to the Store voice you concerns
get a Refund and never return.

It will be only a matter of time when these Schools in Ohio will end up in a Civil Lawsuit. Of course this only really affects Ohio Property Owner's as they are the only one's that are Taxed to fund the Ohio Schools.


FASTPITCH! Anything else and You're playing too SLOW!

 

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Well sure ****s to live in Pick-Town... Here is the school districts new fee schedule..

http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/districtNewsArticle.aspx?artID=1676

 

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Well sure ****s to live in Pick-Town... Here is the school districts new fee schedule..

http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/districtNewsArticle.aspx?artID=1676

They are also not renewing both north and central athletic directors contracts, which expire in August.

 

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Wow, marching band is only $275. My DD had to pass on marching band here because it was $1000!! Our softball ends up being around $500-550.

 

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In the very near future it seems ALL public schools will be "Play To Participate".

Len

 

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At one time it was a Privilege to play H.S. sports, Nowadays only the Privileged can afford to play.

The schools who are implementing the Play for Pay are opening up a Pandora's Box, where by your DD may be Good Enough to Pay! But she is not Good Enough to Play!

As a smart consumer how many of you go out to a store and simply hand them several Hundred $$$Dollars$$$ to purchase an item only to get home and find that you never recieved what you have purchased?

Now with you Receipt in hand do you:

A. Stay at home and say nothing "No Big Deal"

B. Return to the Store voice you concerns
and get and the item you purchased.

C. Return to the Store voice you concerns
get a Refund and never return.

It will be only a matter of time when these Schools in Ohio will end up in a Civil Lawsuit. Of course this only really affects Ohio Property Owner's as they are the only one's that are Taxed to fund the Ohio Schools.


FASTPITCH! Anything else and You're playing too SLOW!

Civil suit for what? Because taxpayers refuse to pay for someone else's kids to play sports?

I don't get why many think playing sports in school is an entitlement. Everyone living in a school district pays for kids to play sports. Even if they have no kids, even if they have kids that don't play sports. As money gets tight they want the dollars to go to education for all the kids and not sports for the few. Makes sense to me. Any kid playing sports in school can find plenty of opportunities to play outside of school. Lets keep the school's dollars and focus on eduction which is lacking right now. JMHO

 

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We're $150. I don't know if that's per sport or for the year.

 

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Civil suit for what? Because taxpayers refuse to pay for someone else's kids to play sports?

I don't get why many think playing sports in school is an entitlement. Everyone living in a school district pays for kids to play sports. Even if they have no kids, even if they have kids that don't play sports. As money gets tight they want the dollars to go to education for all the kids and not sports for the few. Makes sense to me. Any kid playing sports in school can find plenty of opportunities to play outside of school. Lets keep the school's dollars and focus on eduction which is lacking right now. JMHO

Good post Musty,
As things continue with the ever increasing cost of High School sports school districts will most likely start to make the transition to "Club" sports for most of the activities offered.
Drop coaches salaries, AD positions and fees for OHSAA.

The cost will be determined by the level in which the club competes.
EX: rec/ Competitive.
C-Rains girls and boys HS ******** is club $500 per player ($100 returned at end of year with uniform/equipment turn in). Grades 9-12 on a team.
Parents or players arrange travel to the games (no buses).

 

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You can only run from the school funding fiasco for so long. But I must say there are some really high class palace style public school buildings not too far from where I live - NOTHING like where I went to school. How do they afford these facilities if there is such a crisis in education??