Indiana is a choice state when it comes to attending public schools. You may attend any school you want as long as there is room and they let you in.
If you are lucky enough to be located in a suburban area in the middle of a county close to an urban area and somewhat at the center of the wheel when it comes to other suburban and rural schools, you should feel good. And your school has a good reputation academically and extracurricular wise, you will get many transfers into your school.
If you are good at sports and athletes transfer in, WHETHER THEY MOVE INTO YOUR DISTRICT OR NOT, you will catch grief.
If you are a semi-personable person and the parents you are around ask you about your school and your culture, you will be called a recruiter...if you actually like the place you work and tell them about all the success you can have at that school.
I have gotten multiple flyers from other schools and corporations "recruiting" my two student-athletes. I throw them away, you're wasting your money with me, but I get it. You are trying to get students into your building to help pay for things (money follows the student in Indiana).
In fact, there are many people who are not happy with all the transfers we get at our school and tend to point out things they don't like. Yet, when you ask a simple question where they have done the same thing (maybe not as many, but you can find them), they act as if they're innocent and have followed the rules.
Yes, so have we.
So stop.
You're wrong.
And I do expect that if this article is found, you will spread it around on your good ole boys text group and bad mouth me and my school, then smile when in public.
Finally, any time you would like to hear the truth and not the assumptions of your opinions, I would love to speak with you.
