OK...I found what you were referring to:

 

 

Senator wants to block sports eligibility rule

 

The original House Bill 532 would bring kickboxing and "mixed martial arts'' under the authority of the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Authority. Its sponsor, Rep. Mike Cherry, D-Princeton, said he hasn't seen the Senate changes and needs to discuss them with his colleagues.

I find it disturbing that this amendment was trying to be snuck in at 9:30pm at night to a bill that involves wrestling and boxing. It shows that the private school crowd is fighting a losing battle, and they know it. The public schools have made all of the concessions in this. Private schools have done nothing but asked for more compromise. I think it is time that we go back to square one and remind the Board of Control what exactly the vote was.

 

 

Please list the concessions the public schools have made.

 

Please explain how private schools have asked for MORE compromise?

 

The Private schools have OFFERED more compromise.

I wasn't made aware of it until this morning. The reference to being snuck in, is the fact that it was done at 9:30pm,it was also put on at the last minute, attached to a bill that deals with wrestling and boxing. It is not a bill of its own.

I wasn't made aware of it until this morning. The reference to being snuck in, is the fact that it was done at 9:30pm,it was also put on at the last minute, attached to a bill that deals with wrestling and boxing. It is not a bill of its own.

 

This thread was posted 3/27/06 (Monday) around noon. I received an e-mail Monday morning about it.

 

Now, I'm sorry you weren't aware, but this is not any attempt whatsoever to sneak anything in.

 

If I understand correctly, the ammendment is being attached to a current bill proposal that applies to Kentucky Athletics, but it was not, in anyway, put on at the last minute. At the very latest, it was added on Monday. But I think it was added earlier than that.

This amendment is attached to a bill that has abolutely nothing to do with High School athletics. It is on a bill that is dealing with professional boxing and wrestling in our state. I don't think it was snuck in because I found out this morning, I think it is being snuck in because of the bill it is attached to and the hour at which is was brought up.

 

rockmom, can you name me a proposal that the private schools presented to the Board of Control? I know that the public schools have made all of the proposals and have made concessions on many of them as well. They have gone from the delegate assembly voting for a split to, Ok we'll make the private schools name their feeder schools. That wasn't good enough so we'll go from 2 years of ineligebility to one year. Still don't like it so we'll try to put it on the back end of a bill so no one will notice it.

 

I would bet you knew about it because you were asked to call your representitive by someone trying to get the bill through.

Manual Sophomore speaks out:

 

The proposal punishes students unfairly

 

This proposal's main goal may be to stop recruiting, but what it is really stopping is diversity.

 

I understand that recruitment is a problem, but what happened to making rules that are best for the students? It seems to me that sports are getting in the way of the real focus and purpose of high school: the education. These rules are not going to hurt the authors or change their lives; these rules are going to hurt me, as well as all other athletes in the state.

 

 

So they are trying to tell me that I should be penalized for switching schools. I chose Manual because the Math, Science, and Technology program there intrigued me, not specifically so that I could run on the cross country team. I intend to run in college, but there is no way I will ever be able to compete with some of the top runners in the nation, either on the course or for the scholarships, if I am not even able to step foot in a varsity race until my junior year of high school.

 

This proposal to cut down on recruitment has gone too far. What began as a measure to bring equality to the major moneymaking high school sports has become a constricting proposal to cut back diversity and destroy success of the lesser-known activities. The rich will get richer, and the poor get poorer — athletically speaking. This cannot be allowed to happen.

What should be done then? Enforce recruitment rules. Raise the stakes so that the penalty for recruitment will be higher. Target those recruiting schools, or better yet their coaches, athletic directors, and principals directly, but leave the innocent students caught in the crossfire alone.

If there are other people in the community who feel the same way, I strongly encourage you to talk to your principals and athletic directors. Or call Jim Sexton of Eastern High School. He is one of the board members and major proponents of this bill. In one way or another this will most likely affect you. Do something, please. Don't sit back and let this the pass without a say or a fight.

 

This amendment is attached to a bill that has abolutely nothing to do with High School athletics. It is on a bill that is dealing with professional boxing and wrestling in our state. I don't think it was snuck in because I found out this morning, I think it is being snuck in because of the bill it is attached to and the hour at which is was brought up.

 

There has been information circulated regarding this ammendment since Monday. I don't think you can call that sneaking anything in.

 

rockmom, can you name me a proposal that the private schools presented to the Board of Control? I know that the public schools have made all of the proposals and have made concessions on many of them as well. They have gone from the delegate assembly voting for a split to, Ok we'll make the private schools name their feeder schools. That wasn't good enough so we'll go from 2 years of ineligebility to one year. Still don't like it so we'll try to put it on the back end of a bill so no one will notice it.

 

No, what the public schools have done is:

 

1) Refuse to address proposals presented to the General delegate membership that addressed individual concerns that many delegates had that would have eliminated the need for Prop 20.

 

2) Moved straight to vote on Prop 20, without regard to the long-term consequences of the proposal, or the fact that many issues that cause rancor would remain unaddressed

 

3) Refused to consider the private schools' recommendations in the compromise negotiations, INCLUDING the PRIVATE school concession that students leaving private schools to attend public high schools should not face ineligibility penalties.

 

The private schools have agreed to define feeder systems. That's not a concession on the public school side. How can it be? We've actually had to accept a 2 year ban on sports, 1 varsity, and one additional from all level of competition. We've offered 1 year, but it's been rejected.

 

I would bet you knew about it because you were asked to call your representitive by someone trying to get the bill through.

 

Actually, I knew about it because I'm on the newsletter and action alert e-mail lists of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky. I've gotten a few other e-mails as well about other legislation, and the Catholic Church's position and recommendations on them.

 

I'm surprised that you didn't get an e-mail or correspondance or phone call from someone dying to squash this. It seems the public school circles have been a step ahead of the private school circles throughout this whole process to this point.

The original e-mail was sent Tuesday at 3:30. Suprised me too.

I am at the point now where I don't think the majority should listen to any type of compromise. I was really for one when I attended the meetings in Lexington. This amendment really has made the private schools look bad in the public schools eyes. Right or wrong. You may not consider it being sneaky, but the way the whole thing has gone down has been ugly.

rockmom,

 

I will start by saying that from my previous posts with hearsay that I am okay with the legislature getting involved, even stepping in front of the judicial process. I am also against prop 20 as I think it is too drastic a measure for dealing with the problems that exist(documented also in previous posts). This amendment to a bill that was proposed to deal with definitions of what constitutes boxing and mixed martial arts is as hearsay states superficial. Most, not all of the time, but most of the time amendments to a bill are changes dealing with the original bill that were amended once they reached the floor. This is an amendment that has absolutely nothing to do with the original bill and should have been a bill on its own, which is why it appears as spurious and superficial. In my opinion, the person proposing the amendment should have made it a bill on its own, because as is it appears as a junk tag along.

rockmom,

 

I will start by saying that from my previous posts with hearsay that I am okay with the legislature getting involved, even stepping in front of the judicial process. I am also against prop 20 as I think it is too drastic a measure for dealing with the problems that exist(documented also in previous posts). This amendment to a bill that was proposed to deal with definitions of what constitutes boxing and mixed martial arts is as hearsay states superficial. Most, not all of the time, but most of the time amendments to a bill are changes dealing with the original bill that were amended once they reached the floor. This is an amendment that has absolutely nothing to do with the original bill and should have been a bill on its own, which is why it appears as spurious and superficial. In my opinion, the person proposing the amendment should have made it a bill on its own, because as is it appears as a junk tag along.

 

I'm not arguing anything at all in your post...I agree.

 

There are a lot more amendments that the one dealing with the public/private issue attached to that bill, though.

 

Check the document out:

 

 

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall have the management and control of the common schools and all programs operated in these schools, including interscholastic athletics, the Kentucky School for the Deaf, the Kentucky School for the Blind, and community education programs and services.

 

(2) The Kentucky Board of Education may designate an organization or agency to manage interscholastic athletics in the common schools, provided that the rules, regulations, and bylaws of any organization or agency so designated shall be approved by the board, and provided further that any administrative hearing conducted by the designated managing organization or agency shall be conducted in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B. The organization or designated agency shall not segregate or divide public and private schools for the purposes of state championship play-offs or tournaments. Any proposal designed to control a student's eligibility to participate in high school interscholastic athletics based on geographic boundaries designed for this purpose or designated feeder schools shall be approved by the General Assembly before being implemented.

 

(a) The state board or its designated agency shall assure through promulgation of administrative regulations that if a secondary school sponsors or intends to sponsor an athletic activity or sport that is similar to a sport for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer an athletic scholarship, the school shall sponsor the athletic activity or sport for which a scholarship is offered. The administrative regulations shall specify which athletic activities are similar to sports for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer scholarships.

 

(b) Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, the state board shall require any agency or organization designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to adopt bylaws that establish as members of the agency's or organization's board of control one (1) representative of nonpublic member schools who is elected by the nonpublic school members of the agency or organization from regions one (1) through eight (8) and one (1) representative of nonpublic member schools who is elected by the nonpublic member schools of the agency or organization from regions nine (9) through sixteen (16). The nonpublic school representatives on the board of control shall not be from classification A1 or D1 schools. Following initial election of these nonpublic school representatives to the agency's or organization's board of control, terms of the nonpublic school representatives shall be staggered so that only one (1) nonpublic school member is elected in each even-numbered year.

 

© The state board or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics shall not promulgate rules, administrative regulations, or bylaws that prohibit pupils in grades seven (7) to eight (8) from participating in any high school sports except for high school varsity soccer and football, or from participating on more than one (1) school-sponsored team at the same time in the same sport. The Kentucky Board of Education, or an agency designated by the board to manage interscholastic athletics, may promulgate administrative regulations restricting, limiting, or prohibiting participation in high school varsity soccer and football for students who have not successfully completed the eighth grade.

 

(d) Every local board of education shall require an annual medical examination performed and signed by a physician, physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or chiropractor, if performed within the professional's scope of practice, for each student seeking eligibility to participate in any high school athletic activity or sport. The Kentucky Board of Education or any organization or agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics shall not promulgate administrative regulations or adopt any policies or bylaws that are contrary to the provisions of this paragraph.

 

(e) Any student who turns nineteen (19) years of age prior to August 1 shall not be eligible for high school athletics in Kentucky. Any student who turns nineteen (19) years of age on or after August 1 shall remain eligible for that school year only.

 

(f) If the state board or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics promulgates administrative regulations that permit a school district to employ or assign nonteaching personnel to serve in a coaching position, those administrative regulations shall apply to all sports and sports activities, including basketball and football. The administrative regulations shall give preference to the hiring or assignment of certified personnel over nonteaching personnel in coaching positions.

 

(3) (a) The Kentucky Board of Education is hereby authorized to lease from the State Property and Buildings Commission, or others, whether public or private, any lands, buildings, structures, installations, and facilities suitable for use in establishing and furthering television and related facilities as an aid or supplement to classroom instruction, throughout the Commonwealth, and for incidental use in any other proper public functions. The lease may be for any initial term commencing with the date of the lease and ending with the next ensuing June 30, which is the close of the then-current fiscal biennium of the Commonwealth, with exclusive options in favor of the board to renew the same for successive ensuing bienniums, July 1 in each even year to June 30 in the next ensuing even year; and the rentals may be fixed at the sums in each biennium, if renewed, sufficient to enable the State Property and Buildings Commission to pay therefrom the maturing principal of and interest on, and provide reserves for, any revenue bonds which the State Property and Buildings Commission may determine to be necessary and sufficient, in agreement with the board, to provide the cost of acquiring the television and related facilities, with appurtenances, and costs as may be incident to the issuance of the bonds.

(b) Each option of the Kentucky Board of Education to renew the lease for a succeeding biennial term may be exercised at any time after the adjournment of the session of the General Assembly at which appropriations shall have been made for the operation of the state government for such succeeding biennial term, by notifying the State Property and Buildings Commission in writing, signed by the chief state school officer, and delivered to the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet as a member of the commission. The option shall be deemed automatically exercised, and the lease automatically renewed for the succeeding biennium, effective on the first day thereof, unless a written notice of the board's election not to renew shall have been delivered in the office of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet before the close of business on the last working day in April immediately preceding the beginning of the succeeding biennium.

 

© The Kentucky Board of Education shall not itself operate leased television facilities, or undertake the preparation of the educational presentations or films to be transmitted thereby, but may enter into one (1) or more contracts to provide therefor, with any public agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth having, or able to provide, a staff with proper technical qualifications, upon which agency and instrumentality the board, through the chief state school officer and the Department of Education, is represented in such manner as to coordinate matters of curriculum with the curricula prescribed for the public schools of the Commonwealth. Any contract for the operation of the leased television or related facilities may permit limited and special uses of the television or related facilities for other programs in the public interest, subject to the reasonable terms and conditions as the board and the operating agency and instrumentality may agree upon; but any contract shall affirmatively forbid the use of the television or related facilities, at any time or in any manner, in the dissemination of political propaganda or in furtherance of the interest of any political party or candidate for public office, or for commercial advertising. No lease between the board and the State Property and Buildings Commission shall bind the board to pay rentals for more than one (1) fiscal biennium at a time, subject to the aforesaid renewal options. The board may receive and may apply to rental payments under any lease and to the cost of providing for the operation of the television or related facilities not only appropriations which may be made to it from state funds, from time to time, but also contributions, gifts, matching funds, devises, and bequests from any source, whether federal or state, and whether public or private, so long as the same are not conditioned upon any improper use of the television or related facilities in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection.

 

(4) The state board may, on the recommendation and with the advice of the chief state school officer, prescribe, print, publish, and distribute at public expense such administrative regulations, courses of study, curriculums, bulletins, programs, outlines, reports, and placards as each deems necessary for the efficient management, control, and operation of the schools and programs under its jurisdiction. All administrative regulations published or distributed by the board shall be enclosed in a booklet or binder on which the words "informational copy" shall be clearly stamped or printed.

 

(5) Upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer or his designee, the state board shall establish policy or act on all matters relating to programs, services, publications, capital construction and facility renovation, equipment, litigation, contracts, budgets, and all other matters which are the administrative responsibility of the Department of Education.".

The original e-mail was sent Tuesday at 3:30. Suprised me too.

I am at the point now where I don't think the majority should listen to any type of compromise. I was really for one when I attended the meetings in Lexington. This amendment really has made the private schools look bad in the public schools eyes. Right or wrong. You may not consider it being sneaky, but the way the whole thing has gone down has been ugly.

 

I hope I'm able to convey my response in the manner I mean to...for I do NOT mean to sound flip, arrogant, or in any other way derogatory toward public schools or their representatives.

 

I honestly have no fear of what the public schools' perceptions of private schools are at this point. I have attended, sent my children to, and been involved in Private schools for over 20 years. Along the way, I've encountered just about every misperception, misconception, and any other mis- you can think of. I'm heartily tired of justifying my decisions, defending private schools from erroneous beliefs by people who have no interest in either learning the truth, or hearing the truth, or being provided the resoruces to investigate the truth. I've come to the conclusion that there is only one answer public schools will accept, and it will be of no service to either the students that attend public schools, or those that attend private schools.

 

I also have my own thoughts of the various intent of supporters of Prop 20, and a theory on the reason the proposal gained so much support. But, I don't feel this thread is the thread to go into that theory.

 

I understand that wrongdoings have occurred over the years, either by mistake or by intent, by various schools, both public and private. The thing that sticks in my craw the worst, is that all of the support is behind one proposal...the one that separates the public and private schools in post season competition. If that kind of support were behind the proposals that dealt with defining and enforcing the rules, why would there even be a need for separation?

I'm not arguing anything at all in your post...I agree.

 

There are a lot more amendments that the one dealing with the public/private issue attached to that bill, though.

 

Check the document out:

 

 

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall have the management and control of the common schools and all programs operated in these schools, including interscholastic athletics, the Kentucky School for the Deaf, the Kentucky School for the Blind, and community education programs and services.

 

(2) The Kentucky Board of Education may designate an organization or agency to manage interscholastic athletics in the common schools, provided that the rules, regulations, and bylaws of any organization or agency so designated shall be approved by the board, and provided further that any administrative hearing conducted by the designated managing organization or agency shall be conducted in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B. The organization or designated agency shall not segregate or divide public and private schools for the purposes of state championship play-offs or tournaments. Any proposal designed to control a student's eligibility to participate in high school interscholastic athletics based on geographic boundaries designed for this purpose or designated feeder schools shall be approved by the General Assembly before being implemented.

 

(a) The state board or its designated agency shall assure through promulgation of administrative regulations that if a secondary school sponsors or intends to sponsor an athletic activity or sport that is similar to a sport for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer an athletic scholarship, the school shall sponsor the athletic activity or sport for which a scholarship is offered. The administrative regulations shall specify which athletic activities are similar to sports for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer scholarships.

 

(b) Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, the state board shall require any agency or organization designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to adopt bylaws that establish as members of the agency's or organization's board of control one (1) representative of nonpublic member schools who is elected by the nonpublic school members of the agency or organization from regions one (1) through eight (8) and one (1) representative of nonpublic member schools who is elected by the nonpublic member schools of the agency or organization from regions nine (9) through sixteen (16). The nonpublic school representatives on the board of control shall not be from classification A1 or D1 schools. Following initial election of these nonpublic school representatives to the agency's or organization's board of control, terms of the nonpublic school representatives shall be staggered so that only one (1) nonpublic school member is elected in each even-numbered year.

 

© The state board or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics shall not promulgate rules, administrative regulations, or bylaws that prohibit pupils in grades seven (7) to eight (8) from participating in any high school sports except for high school varsity soccer and football, or from participating on more than one (1) school-sponsored team at the same time in the same sport. The Kentucky Board of Education, or an agency designated by the board to manage interscholastic athletics, may promulgate administrative regulations restricting, limiting, or prohibiting participation in high school varsity soccer and football for students who have not successfully completed the eighth grade.

 

(d) Every local board of education shall require an annual medical examination performed and signed by a physician, physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or chiropractor, if performed within the professional's scope of practice, for each student seeking eligibility to participate in any high school athletic activity or sport. The Kentucky Board of Education or any organization or agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics shall not promulgate administrative regulations or adopt any policies or bylaws that are contrary to the provisions of this paragraph.

 

(e) Any student who turns nineteen (19) years of age prior to August 1 shall not be eligible for high school athletics in Kentucky. Any student who turns nineteen (19) years of age on or after August 1 shall remain eligible for that school year only.

 

(f) If the state board or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics promulgates administrative regulations that permit a school district to employ or assign nonteaching personnel to serve in a coaching position, those administrative regulations shall apply to all sports and sports activities, including basketball and football. The administrative regulations shall give preference to the hiring or assignment of certified personnel over nonteaching personnel in coaching positions.

 

(3) (a) The Kentucky Board of Education is hereby authorized to lease from the State Property and Buildings Commission, or others, whether public or private, any lands, buildings, structures, installations, and facilities suitable for use in establishing and furthering television and related facilities as an aid or supplement to classroom instruction, throughout the Commonwealth, and for incidental use in any other proper public functions. The lease may be for any initial term commencing with the date of the lease and ending with the next ensuing June 30, which is the close of the then-current fiscal biennium of the Commonwealth, with exclusive options in favor of the board to renew the same for successive ensuing bienniums, July 1 in each even year to June 30 in the next ensuing even year; and the rentals may be fixed at the sums in each biennium, if renewed, sufficient to enable the State Property and Buildings Commission to pay therefrom the maturing principal of and interest on, and provide reserves for, any revenue bonds which the State Property and Buildings Commission may determine to be necessary and sufficient, in agreement with the board, to provide the cost of acquiring the television and related facilities, with appurtenances, and costs as may be incident to the issuance of the bonds.

(b) Each option of the Kentucky Board of Education to renew the lease for a succeeding biennial term may be exercised at any time after the adjournment of the session of the General Assembly at which appropriations shall have been made for the operation of the state government for such succeeding biennial term, by notifying the State Property and Buildings Commission in writing, signed by the chief state school officer, and delivered to the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet as a member of the commission. The option shall be deemed automatically exercised, and the lease automatically renewed for the succeeding biennium, effective on the first day thereof, unless a written notice of the board's election not to renew shall have been delivered in the office of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet before the close of business on the last working day in April immediately preceding the beginning of the succeeding biennium.

 

© The Kentucky Board of Education shall not itself operate leased television facilities, or undertake the preparation of the educational presentations or films to be transmitted thereby, but may enter into one (1) or more contracts to provide therefor, with any public agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth having, or able to provide, a staff with proper technical qualifications, upon which agency and instrumentality the board, through the chief state school officer and the Department of Education, is represented in such manner as to coordinate matters of curriculum with the curricula prescribed for the public schools of the Commonwealth. Any contract for the operation of the leased television or related facilities may permit limited and special uses of the television or related facilities for other programs in the public interest, subject to the reasonable terms and conditions as the board and the operating agency and instrumentality may agree upon; but any contract shall affirmatively forbid the use of the television or related facilities, at any time or in any manner, in the dissemination of political propaganda or in furtherance of the interest of any political party or candidate for public office, or for commercial advertising. No lease between the board and the State Property and Buildings Commission shall bind the board to pay rentals for more than one (1) fiscal biennium at a time, subject to the aforesaid renewal options. The board may receive and may apply to rental payments under any lease and to the cost of providing for the operation of the television or related facilities not only appropriations which may be made to it from state funds, from time to time, but also contributions, gifts, matching funds, devises, and bequests from any source, whether federal or state, and whether public or private, so long as the same are not conditioned upon any improper use of the television or related facilities in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection.

 

(4) The state board may, on the recommendation and with the advice of the chief state school officer, prescribe, print, publish, and distribute at public expense such administrative regulations, courses of study, curriculums, bulletins, programs, outlines, reports, and placards as each deems necessary for the efficient management, control, and operation of the schools and programs under its jurisdiction. All administrative regulations published or distributed by the board shall be enclosed in a booklet or binder on which the words "informational copy" shall be clearly stamped or printed.

 

(5) Upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer or his designee, the state board shall establish policy or act on all matters relating to programs, services, publications, capital construction and facility renovation, equipment, litigation, contracts, budgets, and all other matters which are the administrative responsibility of the Department of Education.".

 

rockmom,

 

all the stuff that you put in bold are not amendments that is the current law. The only portion that of KRS 156.070 that is being changed is the part that is italicized.

 

The organization or designated agency shall not segregate or divide public and private schools for the purposes of state championship play-offs or tournaments. Any proposal designed to control a student's eligibility to participate in high school interscholastic athletics based on geographic boundaries designed for this purpose or designated feeder schools shall be approved by the General Assembly before being implemented.

rockmom,

 

all the stuff that you put in bold are not amendments that is the current law. The only portion that of KRS 156.070 that is being changed is the part that is italicized.

 

I didn't bold it on purpose. It copied that way...not sure why.

 

But not everything in the bill relates to the formation of a Boxing and Wrestling Commission, which is the point I was trying to make.

 

Sorry for the confusion.

I understand that wrongdoings have occurred over the years, either by mistake or by intent, by various schools, both public and private. The thing that sticks in my craw the worst, is that all of the support is behind one proposal...the one that separates the public and private schools in post season competition. If that kind of support were behind the proposals that dealt with defining and enforcing the rules, why would there even be a need for separation?

 

I agree with this statement, and I think a good portion of those on the public side agree with this, but the KHSAA has not done a very good job of enforcing their own bylaws and I think a lot, not all, but a lot of the reason prop 20 came about is due to the KHSAA being weak on that issue. What I find even worse is that the solution appears to give the KHSAA more bylaws to police(feeder schools, boundary lines, etc.). They can not even police what they have now.

 

To address your first points. I have a spouse who has taught in both private and public schools. Both have their pros and cons. You can get a quality education from either depending on how you apply yourself.

 

I agree that the split is too drastic a measure, but I also have trouble with the private school supporters who say (work harder, we are just better because we work harder, but at the same time they still want to be able to play those same public schools in the championships because a split champion on the private side would have very little legitimacy especially at the smaller school levels). The we are much better than you attitude, but we still need you for the playoffs.

 

I also disagree with the public school side being so adamant about a split and using recruiting as a reason. While I am not so naive to believe that it does not occur, at public and private schools, but does it occur so much that such a drastic measure as prop 20 is necessary. I think not. There are enough KHSAA bylaws in place currently to address the recruiting issue, they just need to police it much better. Having said that, I realize that it is very difficult to prove, but the perception is that because it is difficult to prove, the KHSAA buries their head in the sand.

 

So back to the topic at hand. If it takes a legislative act to stop all this garbage then I am all for it, even if it skips the judicial process and appears as a tag along amendment to a bill.

I didn't bold it on purpose. It copied that way...not sure why.

 

But not everything in the bill relates to the formation of a Boxing and Wrestling Commission, which is the point I was trying to make.

 

Sorry for the confusion.

 

no problem, the bill only relates to the boxing issue, the amendment only adds this

 

The organization or designated agency shall not segregate or divide public and private schools for the purposes of state championship play-offs or tournaments. Any proposal designed to control a student's eligibility to participate in high school interscholastic athletics based on geographic boundaries designed for this purpose or designated feeder schools shall be approved by the General Assembly before being implemented.

 

to KRS 156.070. Everything else in KRS 156.070 is preexisting law.