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DMoney said:
I'm waiting for [MENTION=713]INCaneFan[/MENTION] to come in and defend Gulliver.

The richest school in Miami is the school that can't get its kids qualified. Unbelievable.
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You would never see that at Belen Jesuit or Columbus.
 
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DMoney said:
John77 said:
Gulliver is nowhere near the richest school in Miami and those kids are on scholarship to go there as it is, they get a ton of help from people at the school and it is on the kid if they cant qualify, it is crazy to blame the school, what do you expect them to do? Take the tests for the kids? They have tutors and advisors available, especially for football players.
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We've signed 41 kids over the past two years. Some of those recruits went to places like Edison and Booker T that would kill for private school resources. And the only two kids that struggle to qualify both went to the same $32K a year school?

That tells me one of two things:

1) Gulliver isn't using their incredible test prep and guidance counseling resources to benefit their scholarship athletes; or

2) They're recruiting kids to play football that are just hopeless.

Either option reflects very poorly.
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It could also mean that Gulliver has harder and more competitive classes because they actually want to have kids learn and be ready for college life, so kids who are there and don't focus on academics at all will struggle. The resources of a school are there to be utilized by the students, the students have to want to utilize those resources, if they do not, there is nothing the school can do.

With that being said, there are probably quite a few athletes at Gulliver who should not be there based on their past academics and commitment to education, who are only there at the moment because the school wants the best of both worlds. If you think the classes at Edison and Booker T are as difficult as classes at a school like Gulliver than I don't know what to tell you, it is simply not true.
 
DMoney said:
I'm waiting for [MENTION=713]INCaneFan[/MENTION] to come in and defend Gulliver.

The richest school in Miami is the school that can't get its kids qualified. Unbelievable.
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I remember taking an SAT prep class there back in 84. Gulliver was considered an elite HS and still is. How on earth are these two kids not immediate qualifiers? How does that happen?
 
WestEndzone said:
ben said:
WestEndzone said:
AUcane said:
DMoney said:
I'm waiting for [MENTION=713]INCaneFan[/MENTION] to come in and defend Gulliver.

The richest school in Miami is the school that can't get its kids qualified. Unbelievable.
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This. These kinds of shenanigans never happen at a prestigious school like ransom.
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We always referred to Ransom as the Ransom Raiders; and Gulliver as the Gulliver Cheating Raiders. Gulliver is a joke of a program. They play in a backyard and their weight room has more treadmills than squat racks.
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Ransom isn't a joke of a program?
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Ransom isn't pretending to be anything.


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Bingo.
 
John77 said:
DMoney said:
John77 said:
Gulliver is nowhere near the richest school in Miami and those kids are on scholarship to go there as it is, they get a ton of help from people at the school and it is on the kid if they cant qualify, it is crazy to blame the school, what do you expect them to do? Take the tests for the kids? They have tutors and advisors available, especially for football players.
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We've signed 41 kids over the past two years. Some of those recruits went to places like Edison and Booker T that would kill for private school resources. And the only two kids that struggle to qualify both went to the same $32K a year school?

That tells me one of two things:

1) Gulliver isn't using their incredible test prep and guidance counseling resources to benefit their scholarship athletes; or

2) They're recruiting kids to play football that are just hopeless.

Either option reflects very poorly.
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It could also mean that Gulliver has harder and more competitive classes because they actually want to have kids learn and be ready for college life, so kids who are there and don't focus on academics at all will struggle. The resources of a school are there to be utilized by the students, the students have to want to utilize those resources, if they do not, there is nothing the school can do.

With that being said, there are probably quite a few athletes at Gulliver who should not be there based on their past academics and commitment to education, who are only there at the moment because the school wants the best of both worlds. If you think the classes at Edison and Booker T are as difficult as classes at a school like Gulliver than I don't know what to tell you, it is simply not true.
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Gulliver has a campus across the street from tropical park, which facilitates their remedial courses. I have cousins and friends that have graduated from Gulliver, and I have coached a few of their kids. I've heard the same thing from a lot of them that their remedial campus is a joke. It's almost impossible to fail, but you're not getting prepared for anything. It's to make sure that everyone graduates, both athletes and rich kids that don't care about school (they're not going to hold back a kid whose parents are paying around $30K a year).

I've heard that they're not investing into the football program as much as they used to.
 
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If the internet was like it is now , I would have gotten into Harvard. With all the resources these days how cant you ace high school?
 
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3G Cane said:
:q3XKXeX: @ the private school ****ing match this thread has devolved into.
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Just came across this and yes, it's funny. What's even funnier is someone laying blame on a school rather than the student for not getting what should be an easy accomplishment....an NCAA qualifying set of scores for athletes. Any athlete that doesn't get into school with the bar set that low, I'm sorry, they aren't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree and probably are lazy as ****.

Typical of today's society, blame something other than the problem....the individual. ****, if you're going to blame someone, blame the kids parents who'll cheer in the stands but look the other way as their kid barely makes it through school.
 
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