Thursday, July 21, 2011

Free Tuition For Many Athletes Inflates Enrollment

Since this topic has been coming up repeatedly in the comments on other posts, we felt it deserved its own full-length post. 

It's not much of a secret that a few years ago, Byrnes started recruiting student athletes from local public schools and offered them free tuition at Byrnes in exchange for play.  Considering the record of the football and basketball team before this practice started, perhaps this wasn't such a bad idea!  What many have also come to realize is that some of these players' siblings were also given free tuition along with somewhat of a carte blanche as far as behavior is concerned.  More than one person has already commented here that this has become a safety concern for them and prompted them to remove their children from the school. 

All the details and numbers after the jump