That said, the Superintendent's response to this has been mishandled.
This school also had a prominent football player (a finalist for some state award) in hot water for smacking around his baby-mama at a basketball game. A misguided general concern around these parts was what this would do to his collegiate career.
One of the local tactics in Chattanooga schools is to recruit talented athletes from beyond school borders and have them "move" to reside within the appropriate boundaries. Now, "moving" may involve listing a relative's address and so forth.
It's a despicable practice that subverts the intent of localized public education; that is to have students attend school in their own neighborhoods.
It's the same in Charlotte.
Tonto...I just went back and looked at all the latest reports on this story...
The team HAS been playing games, even though, in December, when it happened, it was reported that their season was cancelled...
I have not looked at this since late December, but there is a lot of differences between what was reported then and what is reported lately...
As far as the photo, the same photo showed up minus the date on the school’s website for sports teams for 2015-16...
Obviously, this was handled inappropriately by all involved...