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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 351994" data-attributes="member: 389">Being relatively familiar with Shiloh, I can't agree with your position on Shiloh recruiting rez kids.  First off, Shiloh is not a boarding school like the old New England Saint Mary was back in the day, so where is Shiloh homing all these kids that they are recruiting off the reservation? As far as I know, the native kids at Shiloh all live with their parents here in the Bismarck area and aren't commuting from Parshall or Fort Yates.Also, I watched a couple of Shiloh basketball games last year and I can only remember one, maybe two half-native kids on the team (one I know is half because I grew up with his parents, the other may not even be native).  I can think of at least 3 or 4 native gals on Shiloh's C-squad volleyball team, are you thinking that is where Shiloh was emphasizing recruitment?BisMan is full of former reservation dwellers like myself.  We in general like the smaller school atmosphere (and Shiloh is top shelf in that category) because it gives our kids the opportunity to participate when compared to BHS, Century, or Legacy sized schools.  So if we can swing it, we absolutely will send our kids to the private school because we relate better to them.  Someone else put their finger on the right reason why the smaller private schools are more successful than their student population size would suggest.  Students who go to private schools simply have more opportunity to train as they don't have to go out and work on the farm or get a job because money is overly tight in the family.  Sanford Power is full of Shiloh kids in the summer time, and the teams often hold what they call captain's practices throughout the latter half of the summer to go along with the Sanford Power.  They are simply doing a better job of reaching their potential. It's been a while since I've read the Shiloh admissions paperwork, but I don't remember seeing anything in there on athletic scholarships.</blockquote>

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