Private Fayetteville School Questions Foreign Recruitment
Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008 - 07:09 PM Updated: 09:48 PM
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A Fayetteville school is working with the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association to determine if its recruitment practices are in line with their policies.
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Last week two students from foreign countries showed up to go to school at Village Christian Academy but school officials say they didn't follow the application process.
Superintendent Jeremy Cowin is concerned that those students were recruited to play basketball at the school.
Through the attorney for the host family for one of the students, last year's basketball coach Brian Phillips denied any recruitment efforts.
Right now the two students are not enrolled in the school.
Cowin says one of the host families is working with the school to go through the proper application process.
The other family is not.
Joan Dayton claims the principal signed the forms for the students and there are no recruiting issues.
"They flew all the way over the ocean to come here. They had a dream, they were pursuing their dream, and it's a fine school, and they should open there doors to these young men," said Joan Dayton's Attorney William Richardson.
"Every student that comes to Village Christian Academy must enter through the same process, they must enter by the same standards, and they must be held accountable when here according to the same standards," said Jeremy Cowin, Village Christian Academy Superintendent.
Dayton wants Village Christian Academy to pay for her student to go to another school.
Cowin said he's willing to work with her to go through the application process at village.
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