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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 352022" data-attributes="member: 389">Shiloh would also like your kid to apply to attend school within their walls so long as you live within what your parents are willing drive to get you there.  If that's what you all mean by "recruiting", then yeah...they recruit.  But there's still no athletic scholarship available that I know of at Shiloh, nor are there boarding rooms to put the kids stolen from Parshall, New Town, or Fort Yates.  The farthest away kid I know lives out in the Steele area.  I suppose we could say he too got "recruited", but since he's in the same grade as my son and has been going there since at least 6th or 7th grade, I doubt it.People used to say the same about another native family that moved to the Bismarck area a few years ago, but no need to recruit and offer up a fictional athletic scholarship to a family when dad can afford to build his kids an indoor basketball court in the backyard of his McMansion.  There was a Bearstail coach at Shiloh a few years ago for cross country, his kid?Parents are weird as they all have their own reasons for the schools they send their kids to.  I've seen some great kids start at Shiloh in pre-school only to have their parents send them off to the public school when they hit junior high (it gets progressively more expensive).  Others start their kids in public school and transition them to private school starting in junior high, again for their own reasons.  And there are certainly a lot of kids that are just being drug along with their parents' decision to relocate for work or family and end up at Shiloh.My kids ended up at Shiloh because the school district I moved into as we changed houses was/is the good old Apple Creek country school.  No before or after school programs (at the time, it looks like they have an after school program now), no bussing, etc.  All that made it very difficult for a new family with two working adults to get the kids to and from school while still satisfying their employer's requirement to work a full day.  That made going the private school route a simple, but expensive decision.Shiloh kids come from all walks of life and family scenarios, school districts are a public school concept which allows all kids in that defined area the opportunity to attend school on the taxpayer's dime.  Saying Shiloh shouldn't allow a kid from XXXXXXXX to attend there seems like one is laying claim to another person's child.  For whatever reason, a lot of people get butthurt when one of the many kids that transfer in turns out to also be athletic.  There are plenty of non-athletic kids that transfer in or start at Shiloh every year.  I find it weird how grown adults seem to care more about their alma mater's success in sports than about the freedom for someone else's kid to attend a private school.  If you don't want to send your kid to a private school, that's your choice and what the public school system is intended.  Parents shopping around for the best opportunities for their kids is nothing new and sure as heck isn't going away because of what any of us say on this topic.  As far as the gal from Wilton, she's been a great addition to Shiloh, very good athlete, very friendly and interactive with the other kids.  Did her parents decide to send her to Shiloh because they think she has a better chance at an athletic scholarship for college because Shiloh has better coaches and facilities?  I truly don't know, that would be a better question for her or her parents.</blockquote>

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