Recruiting South Dakota Students

After writing the STM/SES post I realized that I should write an entry about the problems with open enrollment and recruiting in south dakota, as many of you may know I come from Tyndall, SD which lost around 10 kids in high school to Avon including good friends.... Heres what I have came up with..

Avon is looked at as just recruiting athletes because they went to the dome 4 years in a row.. that statement is unjust because the majority of there athletes do live and are from avon a few have came over but most havn't. 2nd Avon is a small town and small school and with how money is given out Avon recruits all students if you fail in Wagner or Lake Andes they send you a packet... In that packet they send you 2 calculaters, a schedule, phone numbers to various teachers and administration and a personal letter.. I know I recieved one (my mom asked for them too). As far as giving incentives most kids the chance of winning state is enough, others like smaller classrooms and some just want to get out of bad situations. Other schools have recieved recruiting names such as Chester, from what I understand Chester started when the Kruetzfelts moved between Madison and Chester there oldest was in high school and there youngest was maybe a kindegardner they decided that yes Chester would be a better fit, the Kruetzfelts who were well liked and factored with problems at Madison prompted others to follow as far as my knowledge on the situation no actual recruitng when on though people still are upset over it.

Argus article about open enrollment in sports a year ago.... this article was written by Stew Whitney and was horrible it sold kids out to sound like idiots he interviewed Terry Balvin who I have known for many years for over an hour and all he got out of it was "we have taken are grocery shopping out of Tyndall" and other stuff that anybody in the county could of said... They went and interviewed Bon Homme's principal but no students if students would of been interviewed most would of said this "I didn't support it nor did I like it but I understood it" Stu also commited on select players from Ogorman recieved tuition reduction for small jobs...
They say this happens all the time with non boarding private schools though I will disagree I have never heard any problems with Dakota Christian a school located between Corsica, Armour, Geddes and Platte... and all of those schools have produced good athletes and have had kids transfer from place to place and time to time and nobody cares.... maybe we should all take a page out of that areas book. when ringling transfered from Platte to Geddes the Platte kids still supported him and so did the community they knew it was best for him.
Open enrollment will always leave a sour taste in my mouth but I will always say that it is a good thing to have... why punish a kid? but then again why punish a school?