Well, in a similar note. I was telling my mother the other day that I no longer feel at home in Canfield. When I grew up there, it was farms, and a small city. The football team won a total of maybe 10-games in the entire four years I was there. Excellent baseball & Track. They also had the highest test scores for equivalency tests in the state. The police pulled anyone over going above 36mph. Now I feel like I my parents moved to Boardman:
Two places that sell alcohol, designer drugs, and a good football team.
As to the Parochial issue ...it happens everywhere. However, it is the public schools that use the vouchers. A Catholic education is very pricey. In Columbus it is Bishop Watterson and St. Frances DeSales. We also have male and female only schools. We have a new Grace (protestant) high schools that has become very large and is in a very large city just north of Columbus. They came into existence because of vouchers. We also have 3 prep academies. In fact YSu has taken players from them. In fact, Columbus has had a very successful voucher program for many years now. When you prepare a resume, it is more important for you to place St. Frances on there, than it would be a degree from Ohio State. It cost $2k more to attend a year of prep at SFH, than it does to attend a year at Ohio State $10k ...vs. $8k. They take care of each other at that school. Both of these schools (DeSales and Watterson) are in the city & get great athletes. They have XX number of vouchers, and get them. However, it is the larger public schools that use far more vouchers. The issue is not the Parochial schools in Ytown. It is the lack of quality public schools.
