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Georgia Classifications

Discussion in 'Baseball' started by sockittome16, Dec 11, 2003.

  1. Dec 11, 2003 at 2:34 AM #1
    sockittome16

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    Hey you guys, CMS grad here and go to college at Georgia now, and they have a great classification system here. Private schools and public schools are in the same divisions, but each person in a private school counts one and a half people, because of the ability to recruit players and it works out very well. NC should start doing that. Also 3 time state champion Parkview lost last week, and they were supposedly at Independence level, but no one in Georgia knows how to pass the ball. NC schools would crush them.
     
  2. Dec 13, 2003 at 12:52 PM #2
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    I thought this was interesting and copied it on here...any thoughts?
     
  3. Dec 21, 2003 at 9:41 AM #3
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    In Georgia, I also heard if you are a high school student and maintain a 3.0 gpa throughout high school, you get a significant amount of money towards a state supported school. I am not sure of all the details, please share if you know more about this...:D
     
  4. Dec 21, 2003 at 11:43 AM #4
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  5. Dec 21, 2003 at 6:24 PM #5
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    In Georgia, if you have a GPA of 3.0 and graduate from a Georgia high school you qualify for the Hope Scholarship. I think it is around $5,000 a school year that you get if you maintain the 3.0 also. The scholarship is provided through the money from the lottery. South Carolina has a similar program also. Yet NC residents keep voting down the lottery, and then spend millions of dollars in Va, SC, and GA supporting their lottery. Go figure!
    Website that tells you about the hope scholarship:
    http://www.gsfc.org/hope/
     
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    Thanks for the info!! ;)
     
  7. Dec 22, 2003 at 4:00 PM #7
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    lottery - GA hope?

    Soapbox time, U got me goin sugarjet!

    the lottery in GA and any lottery for that matter seems like a deal but here are some truths:

    the majority of GA lottery revenues are sourced by people below the median income in GA, but

    the majority of GA lottery HOPE scholars are from families above the median income in GA

    ergo the GA poor and vulnerable are putting the GA middle class through college. What a deal!

    There is more... after introduction and initial hoopla,(maybe 3-5 years) lottery revenues tend to flatten and decline (competition from surrounding states, sagging economy, etc). But spending based on lottery revenues rarely declines its RATE of growth. The outcome: budget shortfalls in and around the St Louis riverboat gambling complex and more to the point, GA's hope scholarship is several hundred million dollars in the budget deficit position for the 03-04 school year. I will not vouch for the numeric accuracy of my comments, but directionally they are in the ball park.

    I'd like to think the people of the great State of NC see the truth: lotteries are not sure things and even when wrapped in the blanket of something as seductive as the HOPE scholarship, a lottery takes advantage of the most vulnerable and those who need help the most.
     

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