I'm a high school soccer player from LA so I may be a bit biased, but I think that instead of having divisions like 1A-5A AND the division of public and private, we should have just one public and one private division. What the article doesn't mention is that private schools can offer tuition scholarships to anyone. They don't need to do it just for academic or low income students. This is de facto recruitment and has led to private schools (especially from the NOLA area) being dominant in pretty much every division.

Abolishing the 1A-5A divisions would be a much easier fix to this issue, keeping sports competitive (STM is 4A and Acadiana High is 5A, and they are both contenders for the soccer and football championships every year) while also making the playing field fair for students who attend public schools.

However, I know this question is less about sports and more about our issue with a broken public schooling system. I think that opening school zone borders, further establishing charter schools, and driving students from public to private schools, is a recipe for a totally privatized system of education for everyone but the poor within 20 years. We need to make public schooling appealing, bringing the quality of students in public education up which will in turn drag the bottom 10% up to their level. Having "the children not follow the dollars but the dollars follow the children" was the biggest fuck up in public education I've ever heard of and Bobby Jindal deserves full responsibility for how much he's messed up public schooling.

Sorry for the rant, but as a student of a Louisiana public school (and one of the really good ones at that) I'm disappointed at the lack of concern for the education and preparation of the children of Louisiana. If you want Louisiana to be a state of opportunity, killing our public school system by enabling the privatization of education isn't the way to do it.