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Originally Posted by HonestChieffan
Far different story told here:
High school career
Much like his older brother Michael, Jontay started out his high school career playing under the Father Tolton Regional Catholic High School in their home town of Columbia, Missouri. In his freshman year, he averaged 11.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game for Father Tolton before being a key figure in helping them win the Missouri Class 3 State Championship for the first time during his sophomore season. In his junior year of high school, Jontay and Michael, along with their younger brother Coban, would move to Seattle, Washington after his father earned an assistant coaching job at the University of Washington for their basketball team. During Jontay and Michael's time at Nathan Hale High School, the brothers would be coached by former NBA All-Star Brandon Roy, who would help lead the squad to a perfect 29–0 record and the Washington Class 3A State Championship. Under the coaching of Roy, Porter would average a double-double of 14.3 points and 13.6 rebounds per game for Nathan Hale High School, thus earning a name for himself alongside his older brother.
Porter was previously a recruit under the Class of 2018, with him being ranked as high as 11th overall by ESPN at one point.[1] However, after his father was hired as an assistant coach for the University of Missouri, his older brother changed his commitment from the University of Washington to his hometown University of Missouri, and Brandon Roy changed coaching positions from Nathan Hale to Garfield High School, Jontay would reclassify himself into the Class of 2017 alongside his brother, joining his family out at the University of Missouri. Between his time preparing for his transfer from high school into college, Porter would gain two more inches to his body, thus allowing him to play as a power forward, with center being a viable possibility as well.
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All the kids homeschooled until high school, at which point they went to high school to play sports.
Father Tolton is accredited now. I thought it was not an accredited private institution when the Porters enrolled - I was thinking of Christian Fellowship, possibly (that’s where Ricky Kreklow first went).
But while they were at Nathan Hale, it was pretty well publicized they were full school members - they were home schooling most of the time and participating in sports.
As someone who was home schooled under similar circumstances (religion, control) and interacted heavily with dozens of additional home school families in my area through “support groups” I have yet to see someone who didn’t end up extremely sheltered and behind the curve socially - myself included.
Not even talking about the academic side of things. Different ball of wax.
My point was that these were kids who were never really normal students and they have been behind socially the whole way. There is naivety present with all the Porters, including the girls.