re: LHSAA’s definition of “Select” taken to court - playoff picture blurry

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Every Catholic School in the state has feeder schools. If you are the only catholic school in the city then all catholic schools will feed to that Catholic high school.
However if there is more than one the the middle schools will be split and feed to a specific one which will be considered Direct feeder schools. the rule was if you came from one of those you would be eligible, if you were not from a direct you would be ineligible. Not all 12 feed directly to Catholic some feed directly to st michaels as well. It is actually no different than the public middle schools who feed to public high schools, they all have direct feeders as well. You cannot put blame on the catholic schools just because they have opened more schools than the baptists. Unfortunetly the people who want to send their kids to a certain private high school need to move within zone are send their kid to that schools feeder school

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No its very different. The public feeder schools feed schools within the parish at least. Not Catholic.

Again, it looks like the rule has changed, so the rule I take issue with is one evidently others did as well.

And comparing it to other privates is even ridiculous.

Lets put it this way:

Parkview and Catholic both have 8th grade programs right? Even though there are prob way more at Catholic, for the sake of this argument, lets exclude all those kids.

Now, unless you live in Woodlawn school district, you are ineligible at Parkview for a year. Period. Regardless where you are coming from or where you went to middle (excluding Parkview)

So the new Parkview kids (outside the district) in 9th grade are ALL ineligible.

Now Catholic had a different set of rules. Every single kid from a school within the diocese (but outside the district) is (was) eligible at Catholic day 1. Neighboring parish? No problem.

So the Catholic kids (outside the district, but inside the diocese) are ALL ELIGIBLE

This is clearly different and not sure how its even arguable.

I take no issue with Catholic. I take issue with rules and eligibility being applied differently.