THUMB AWARD SHORTSIGHTED LONGVIEW

Thumbs Down to the administrators of Longview Christian Academy for canceling the high school’s basketball schedule with Cistercian Preparatory School. Their reason? Cistercian is a Catholic institution. Administrators at Longview, an independent Baptist academy, recently structured changes in their philosophy, stating that the school’s teams may now only play other Baptist schools. One spokesperson for the school says that the Longview coaches didn’t previously realize that Cistercian was a Catholic school, and if they had known before, earlier games would have been canceled, too. (Cistercian is still slated to play two other Baptist schools this season.) We echo Cistercian headmaster Bernard Marton’s reaction to the incident: “What kind of a world are we living in?”