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USMNT, I may be wrong ,but perhaps attendance lines are not an item of governance by the SCHSL.Case in point....In Sumter County a child may cross over district lines and attend a school in another district by paying a fee to the school board from the district they are leaving..That child must then sit out 1 year before being elgible to play sports.. I believe this is a local rule not a SCHSL rule as the SCHSL apparently has allowed attendance in school districts other than where you reside.Another case in point is Richland County. Many children cross attendance lines to go to other schools under the "guise " of their zoned school not offering some obscure course that Dreher or Flra might offer.. It appears as long as the school district is satisfied then the SCHSL stays out of the attendance zone problem. Am I reading this wrong or is this a correct assumption?

Again, I just don't understand why there are different rules for these schools and not the BE (or plug in name) of the world. The "guise" is still breaking the rules. Using that method could potentially lead to the child being punished at a later date when his eligibility is questioned. And yes paying a fee and sitting out a year is an option but why should that be different from school to school? Do these other schools have to sit out a year?

From a competitive stand point...It looks like B.E. is the big fish in a little pond at soccer and some other activites.I would guess that they would want to move up in classification for the competition

I just went off what I remembered from the previous thread. Whatever the actual distance..the point is still the same. I'll try to find the exact thread now..

Not sure if this is the right one..but a quality thread on the matter none the less. Here.

For some of the schools in Richland County such as Spring Valley and Richland Northeast, there are zones designated as "choice" areas, where a child is zoned to a certain school, but is not prohibited from attending the other. In this case, bussing to and from school is not provided to those who choose the school they are not zoned for. Probably 3 or 4 of the players on Spring Valley had the choice of Richland Northeast, but chose Spring Valley either for academic or athletic reasons.

At the end of the day.. there is a big difference between choosing between Spring Valley and RNE..and Rock Hill/Aiken/Columbia and Charleston.

“This is not just a South Carolina problem”

Florida Boys Soccer Championships

9––Clearwater Central Catholic, 1981 (3A), 1983(3A), 1986 (3A), 1989 (2A), 1990 (2A), 1991 (2A), 1996 (4A), 1997 (3A), 2002 (A).
6––Jesuit (Tampa), 1987 (3A), 1995 (5A), 1997 (4A), 1998 (4A), 1999 (4A), 2001 (2A).
6––Miami Killian, 1977, 1983 (4A), 1984 (4A), 1988 (4A), 1990 (4A), 1992 (4A).
4––Berkeley Prep (Tampa), 1993 (2A), 1994 (3A), 1995 (4A), 2004 (2A).
4––Bishop Moore (Orlando), 1979 (3A), 1980 (3A), 1982 (3A), 2000 (2A).
4––St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), 1996 (5A), 1997 (5A), 1998 (5A), 2005 (5A).
3––Bloomingdale (Valrico), 1993 (4A), 1995 (6A), 1998 (6A).
3––Gulliver Prep (Miami), 1992 (2A), 1999 (3A), 2000 (A).
3––Miami Sunset, 1989 (4A), 2004 (6A), 2005 (6A).

By the way, the Myrtle Beach area will have a Catholic High School within 3 years. 9th grade will begin this fall at St. Michael’s Catholic School and they will add a grade every year after that. The new high school will be in the Carolina Forest area.

Hmm...My post was just before I went to deliver the state newspaper this morning.
Now, If I had access to the needed information, I would do this myself, but because I don't, I would like to see someone post a scatterplot map of all the kids that play on the varsity soccer team at Bishop England so we can see just where they are drawing from and where these kids WOULD go to school. I know at Ben Lippen we have 3 players that should be at Irmo, 2 SV, 1 Eau Claire, 1 Ridge View, 1 AC Flora, 1 Lexington, and 2 foreign exchange students starting this year.

So much discussion! You folks need to remember the state in which you live and who the AD's at most high schools are. I agree with all of the comments regarding the inequities brought on the less affluent more urban schools like BE, CC, et al., and you all offer some good insight into the situation.
But, I really don't think anything will be done by the folks in Columbia until one of these schools makes a run at or wins a state championship in football. Then and only then will serious consideration be given to leveling the playing field.
And by the way, they have no chance to ever compete in basketball. We can all agree on that, can't we.

Your point is dead on rafter. Football is the bread and butter of this state and the simple fact of the matter is no 3 or 4A AD's want schools who can recruit players being apart of their football regions. Also CC and BE are highly academic institutions as well so they have enough common sense to know to keep the football teams slightly under the competition of the rest.

I just hate the fact that so many other sports have to suffer so the well known football programs in the state can prosper.