October 29, 200619 yr I am not sure of the exact history and maybe someone on here can help out but I believe the KRS statue that protects the opportunity for MSers/Elementary play varsity resulted from either a lawsuit in which the KHSAA lost or a threatened lawsuit that the KHSAA would not win, so the legislature made the law to prevent that. Very similar to what the legislature promised with Prop 20. Not true. Just for history's sake, the protection of grades 7 and 8 was instituted about the same time as the "basketball" bill, which compels a school to have a girls' basketball team if they have a boy's team. In the 1970s when the legislature ordered the KHSAA to sanction girls' basketball, many older girls (who had never played) did not want to play, so there was an allowance for younger kids. What it has evolved to is that if I can walk, I can play. That is no longer necessary for teams to have full squads. I continue to say and will always say, it is not "high school ability level" competition, it is "high school based" competition. If you are not in that school, you shouldn't be playing. Until that legislation is removed, I guess we all have to live with the 7th and 8th graders playing for high schools. But the younger kids, need to be in an environment with peer level emotional and mentally comparable kids (it is not ALL about athletic ability folks), and wait their turn to play for the local school. And I think you had an extra letter on your proposal number. If folks on here don't think proposal 2 (territory) is headed to court or legal challenge, well, there's some ocean front property in Bardstown I would like to show you.
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