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I copied a message from Mark Huang, VP of LSCOBA (after Day 3 of D1 Inter-school Athletics Meet), and I think it does point out the current phenomenon of student athletes poaching in HK and it worths sharing here:
The boys trained very well and hard this year, the best team we've seen in the past 7 or 8 years. However, our competition exceeded their standards significantly, especially in the afternoon yesterday, and coupled with some errors and injuries, the margin we gained in the morning slipped away, and we lost the overall. We definitely have work to improve ourselves further. Nevertheless, looking back this year, the boys began training since last summer, even though without the track and field that was under resurfacing. If we want to talk education, La Salle taught our boys of the importance of training hard, and the value of fighting our battles with our own home trained athletes, and how to win and lose. Tonight at the traditional team BBQ, the boys had a great time, were happy with themselves, still held the heads up high and above all vowed to work harder for the next competition.
I continue to be disappointed and disgusted with how some schools claim to be the best of whatever, but they can only win relying heavily on stealing star athletes from other schools. Shame on these schools and my pity on students from those schools who suffer under that policy. My pity also on those less famous schools that lose out to these so-called "famous" schools. They worked hard to train their students to become outstanding, but then these poaching schools just shamelessly attract them over, at any form, at any time in a school year, and at any academic standard, so long as they have some sporting value to the school.
I don’t like making poaching an issue again, especially when we lost and we seem to use this as a convenient excuse for our defeat. But then when speaking with other schools who are victim to these poaching practices, I feel it’s important for us to voice out against poaching, in turn giving these less well-known schools a chance to make their sufferings due to poaching known. To LSC, we stand to lose, come second and get frustrated. To some of these other schools, the one or two star athletes are probably all they have to keep the school afloat in Division 1. Lose them and that’s the end of the school’s position in Division 1 or 2. Their pains are surely no less than ours.
Stephen, the DSS scheme does not work in our favour, but then what difference does it make? They will poach in any circumstance, while we hold onto our principles of educating whomever we are blessed with in F.1. The value of sports to these schools is to be the so-called best of everything, and make themselves look elite. Thankfully there are still schools that remember the value of sports as a channel to educate - to instill the value of hard training, team work and discipline, and above all winning honorably and losing gracefully. Our respect to these schools among them is Hoi Ping Chamber of Commerce Secondary School, a co-ed school that has been training their students extremely well and with a much smaller student population compared to us. They worked their way up from Division 3 a bit more than a decade ago, and now hold a very strong respectable position in Division 1. They deserve our greatest respect, and in fact yesterday at the prize presentation, LSC athletes offered them a standing ovation when they received their trophies for coming 4th in A and B grades and also overall.
The practice of secondary student poaching seems to be growing in HK, Ying Wa College is another very aggressively poaching school, and there are very loud outcries from their students and alumni against it. SJAC is another one turning active in poaching too. In swimming, sadly SJC our sister school is actively practicing this as well.
I will never forget the words the Interschool Div 1 Athletics Meet Sports Convener said in his Covenor Report around 1984 or 85. Like it or not, he referred to titles won by poaching schools as hollow champions.
Anyway, win or lose, let’s keep working hard with our boys, and believe in our values.
原帖由 Chole 於 10-3-14 15:06 發表 
當年我學校有個F1仔打網球好勁，全校冠軍，F2已經見唔到佢，佢+PE亞sir 去咗LS。
或者咁啱佢成績又勁插得到啩
[ 本帖最後由 siufu 於 10-3-15 13:52 編輯 ] |
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發表於 10-3-13 17:45
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is this really the best for a talented girl like her ? and did the school try to give her any support before the Principal threatened her that way, knowing that she came from a Chinese school ? Students go to a school to learn, not to be used. 
有 英 華 書 院 校 友 在 校 內 張 貼 大 字 報 ， 反 對 校 方 羅 致 運 動 表 現 優 異 的 轉 校 生 。 
