Archive for June 4th, 2009
Business First Rankings
June 4th, 2009
Randolph Central may be in the middle of the pack for the school rankings for our elementary, middle school and high school but check this out—#3:
The following are the top 50 high school sports programs in Section VI, based on Business First’s analysis of competition in 18 team sports from the spring season of 2005 through the winter season of 2008-2009.
The sports included in the study were: baseball (boys), basketball (boys and girls), bowling (boys and girls), cross country (boys and girls), field hockey (girls), football (boys), lacrosse (boys and girls), rifle (coed), soccer (boys and girls), softball (girls), volleyball (boys and girls) and wrestling (boys).
Champions in all size classifications were counted equally. Champions from the most recent year (spring 2008 through winter 2008-2009) were awarded four points each, down to one point each for the most distant champions (spring 2005 through winter 2005-2006). Ties above were broken by the total number of sectional champions.
The following rankings do not include public high schools from Section V or any private high schools:
• 1. East Aurora (17 sectional titles, 42 points)
• 2. Orchard Park (12 sectional titles, 30 points)
• 3. Randolph (13 sectional titles, 29 points)
• 4. Clarence (11 sectional titles, 29 points)
• 5. Maple Grove (9 sectional titles, 29 points)
• 6. Fredonia (11 sectional titles, 28 points)
• 7. Lancaster (10 sectional titles, 23 points)
• 8. Hamburg (7 sectional titles, 22 points)
• 9. Forestville (8 sectional titles, 21 points)
• 10. Amherst (9 sectional titles, 19 points)
What a wonderful distinction for all of our athletes, coaches and families! We are constantly striving to do better in our instructional program, studying the data and working hard. I know our rankings will improve over the next several years for academics as we incorporate new strategies to meet the needs identified in our analysis of the data. But for today, June 4, 2009, with our Lady Cardinals Girls Softball team headed to a Class C Section 6 title–I’ll take it! Success comes in any number of ways.
Let’s do what we do best Ladies, go get ‘em!
RCS Weight Room
June 4th, 2009
Okay, so let’s talk about the weight room that’s open to the public here at RCS. It’s open in the morning and the evening, with a first aid/CPR/AED certified staff member required for supervision. That’s necessary for liability purposes should someone get hurt. It costs the district roughly $20,000 per year for the supervision.
It’s wonderful that we keep this weight room open to our community–our students and taxpayers. After all, it’s taxpayer money that pays for the weight room. The thing that bothers me about it is that ALL taxpayers share the burden, not just the taxpayers who use the weight room.
Do you see what I mean? Even though it’s open to everyone, there are taxpayers who won’t ever avail themselves of this opportunity either because they have no interest, inclination or sometimes, physical ability. Should they have to share the cost?
Perhaps those people who use the weight room should share the burden of the cost with the district? We also have a lot of students who use the weight room before and after school as part of their training for their athletic programs–I wouldn’t want to eliminate that opportunity for anyone who can’t afford it.
As we work to contain our costs, I wonder if there’s a better way for us to operate this room?
