I thought the same way when my son's team knocked off South Panola for the championship back in 2008. I hoped that would stoke enthusiasm for MHS and bring an influx of students back to the high school. Sadly, I was wrong.
Not a good start to 2026 for Jackson Academy
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Myles is the 18yo felon/muderer, not JA. The 15yo that was killed is the JA guy.
I think what he is saying is that the 18yo was committing the break in (felony) along with the deceased 15yo. That will get you charged with murder even if you didn't pull the trigger. Obviously I am assuming they were breaking in together due to the fact that Myles is referred to as "the second suspect".
I'd be grateful for the 50% discount.
Whether the partner shoots him or not, he can still be charged with murder since their commission of a felony resulted in his partner being killed.
Yeah, I watch/listen to too much true crime.
Agreed but I bet your help wasn’t just financial help. as a matter of strong opinion, I bet the financial help was lowest on the list of what actually helped.
Just saying the fact this happened has nothing to do with sports.
Hell according to the article he was a former student.
He probably didn't. They were committing a felony and someone died as a result. If someone dies as a result of you committing a felony, you are guilty of "felony murder". Doesn't matter if the person that dies is an accomplice that was shot by a 3rd party.
Some states I believe do not apply felony murder if the death is to a co-conspirator, but Mississippi is not one of them. If the Renee Good thing had happened in Mississippi, her girlfriend would be at risk of a felony murder charge (depending on whether physically interfering with ICE would qualify as a felony or not).
Sorry, I meant with respect to it being relevant to JA, it probably has to do with sports. This guy probably didn't go from being a typical JA student this fall to the type of person that would attempt burglary in early February. He probably shouldn't have been at JA in the fall, and likely wouldn't have been absent recruiting for football. A big part of what parents at JA are paying for is a bubble where their children won't have classmates that engage in any felonies other than the typical spoiled rich kids afflictions (primarily drug related stuff or drinking and driving). If JA is destroying that bubble to recruit, that's a seriously risky bet on their part.
But of course that's assumptions on top of assumptions. Maybe he wasn't recruited there and/or he was a model kid and there is some crazy story involving the burglary like the 18 year old actually had him at gunpoint and forced him to go in. I'm sure if he wasn't recruited that message will be put out soon. If he was recruited I suspect it will encourage lots more parents to be vocal about their concerns about recruiting.
I thought the same when MSU was a Final 4 team in '96, we would rake in the recruits and become a force. We went 61-62 next 4 seasons
I thought the same thing when we won the Natty in baseball. The next 2 seasons we go 53-56 and finish last and next to last in the SEC
They said "we'll show yall" !
Gotcha. I just didn’t see anything about a homeowner shooting someone so it’s still a little vague as written.
Oddly enough it was a mix. The one in prison I gave no financial help to other than letting him live with me for a while. (Room and board)
The one who is successful I helped quite a bit financially; car to go back and forth to college, down payment and furniture for his first apartment. Provided some advice but I also had a long term relationship with him as part of a group of people helping him navigate terrible life in bad inner city schools from about middle school. I suspect early intervention might have played a role but honestly the guy is just exceptional and driven. I think the financial backstop as he got established was the difference in him having some very challenging times vs valuable learning experiences that were overcomable.
everybody is different. I wish there was a recipe for knowing whatever you are doing will work.
I’m referring to burglary being considered a felony in Mississippi…
If Myles was involved in the commission of a felony and someone was killed, then he could be charged with murder….
What the hell is that in the middle behind the back row? Is that a cartoon or something?
This is correct. He was charged with the murder because they were on the crime together. The shooter was the lady in the apartment. In MS, if me and johnson arm rob a gas station and the clerk kills johnson, Id get charged with murder.
Excellent question. I’d be in the leadership’s office at 8am. Either by appointment or force. I’ll get this thread locked by even mentioning school choice, but value systems are value systems. They are embedded well before pre-K. Separation is not always a bad thing, folks.
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At what point, do we start holding people accountable for their decisions again?
If just move my kid to Prep, MRA or Christ Covenant. And I would have done it back in the fall.
Agreed. I suspect (assumption on my part) there is a threshold the private school pocket books will allow this overt, unabashed recruiting to tarnish their reputation. At the end of the day, it’s all about the money. But you’re alienating significant donors for a laughable private school championship? Kids from Clinton likely won’t provide the tuition base long-term.* Let’s assume I’ve given $25k+ to Prep for each of the last 9+ years for 2 kids only to see a “recruit” starting over my kid at left guard. There are expectations with those payments…and rightly so.
I suspect the fact they fired Shay Hodge as soon as this came out is a sign they’ll be backpedaling on the recruiting a bit.
$10k? I’d be embarrassed if my kid’s HS tuition was so low. **
It's absolute insanity. No way this works for high school - nobody cares (except this dumb board, apparently).
Or, maybe they are just trying to stay relevant. I don't think so, though. I think they just got Jackson Jealousy Syndrome and didn't like losing to the other Big 4.
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That’s not true. Neither came from Clinton in the first place. Albert had been there a while. White came in 10th. White enrolled early at TN
Furious, try $15,000 plus for tuition. We would be gone. JA was founded years ago, in the 1950’s and was known for being the first to teach phonics and give a quality education choice above surrounding schools. You can’t buff a turd, now.
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what do you think had more of an effect? The financials or the long term relationship.
I'd be willing to bet if you were lower middle class but took that kid in and guided him from a young age he'd be a lotter better off today even without the financial support.
JA isn’t the first school in Jackson to recruit. They arent gonna be the last either.
The academies who attract kids like that usually fail, at least in urban areas. Like others have mentioned - Hillcrest. If they are in a small town, they may hang on due to having the support of the town (or a certain part of town).
Generally the private schools who succeed focus on the academics, and end up being really good. St. Andrews for example. I think Prep was this in the past, lost the way a little, but have the best shot of the Big 4 to re-attain that, if they don't get Jackson Jealousy Syndrome themselves.
JA is on a slippery slope.
I would be livid. I'd put my kid in another private school that isn't ran by cuck jock sniffers.
I don't think a merger will ever happen, but I do think Prep is positioned better to simply begin adding students that leave JA. For a few reasons:
- Better location, and still in relative proximity to Eastover, and probably just as easy to get to from Madison/Ridgeland. JA is just not located in a great place. Now, this doesn't always matter, look at Woodward Academy in Atlanta - they bus kids and bring them in on MARTA from all over that metro.......because they have the academic reputation and logistical ability to do it. Can JA command that respect, or will they become Hillcrest, while their best go to Prep?
- Prep doesn't seem to have ever significantly hurt their reputation through a scandal such as this, or by being known for doing the stuff Hartfield is doing. The mission SEEMS to have stayed mostly academic, and the sports teams also just happened to be good.
If I'm Prep going forward I might just abandon MAIS in football. Just do a Notre Dame type thing and play independently. Don't even worry about playoffs or find some interstate tournament to play in, just as good as the MAIS Big 4 travel ball state 'championship'. I would not do any recruiting at all - no scholarships.
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I can’t prove a negative but I do think having some transportation was a key. I think that me bailing him out as a recent grad at a minimum kept him from being underwater financially early on. Without the trust of a relationship I’m not in those conversations at all. And the kid had to just have a lot of desire to overcome. Like I said if I had a recipe that worked every time I’d only have success stories.
Hillcrest is still open? They used to be one of the bigger schools, great baseball teams when I played. I just haven't heard anything about them in over a decade.
It’s a fact that we keep throwing money at a “problem” and it hasn’t worked at all.
We should stop throwing money at the problem or refocus the money to something that might have a shot at working.