for the record, I never was saying that athletes follow a math teacher to a new school but rather a kid who was concerned about his math education sometimes heads toward a high school with a better math department. We all know that athletes head to better coaching and better programs. It happens everywhere and all the time. Volleyball players in Spokane head to Mead. Football players up north head to Bellevue. And we just saw a local result of players heading to Skyview to play for their summer coach. And of course, public schools compete with private schools who have little in the way of restrictions on who plays for them. Jesuit in Beaverton can get players city wide. Back east, catholic schools often have their own leagues separate from the public schools and it is a free for all. You look at the boys and girls USATODAY top 25 and it is loaded with private schools. I wish Jackie Lanz would have finished at Prairie with her other state championship team mates but in the end she and her parents made another choice and away she goes. I remember watching a really good player at Prairie a few years back, Cobb, who finished her last two years at Oregon City because her parents thought she would get more exposure.........and away she goes! Talent still requires good coaching and Prairie had that consistency for a very long time while other schools were getting a new coach every other year in SW Washington. That does not build a program or attract beter players.
