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I hate to beat a dead horse. But, has anyone realized that the final four teams in AA/A are all private schools. There is no situation like this in any other clssifications. What message are we sending to our kids at Waccamaw,Barnwell,Gilbert,Pendleton etc.. I can not believe that the SCHSL intended for such an inequality when allowing these schools to participate in the public high school league.

AM is a Public school. The difference is they have students from the entire county and not just school district boundaries. AM has a very good web site trying to entice scholar athletes to thier school. I can not find this in the other school districts.

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I have stated this before. I mean NO disrespect to BE, CC, or SSC, but this situation is not fair. A weak effort was made recently to recalculate attendance in private schools, but it failed because AAA doesn't want to have this situation. The short comment is, this isn't fair. The truth, however, is that some of the public schools COULD have won this year, but we fell short. If you are a sophisticated soccer person, you will see when the top public schools play the private schools, the private schools tend to have a broader BASE of experienced players with club backgrounds—creating the inequity. Rural public schools will never have a full team of club players, while the private schools have and can field an entire starting line up of club players because they are not restricted by attendance lines. It isn't an even playing field. That shouldn't be the case in high school athletics. If this was the case in AAAA football, something would be done (look into other states where that is the case).

We are arguing for FAIRNESS, not weaker or stronger. Let's put college teams in AAAA to make that stronger, ok? The reason we have the classifications is to create fairness. Private schools corrupt that system because they do NOT have the same guidelines as public schools. All AAAA teams should be held to the same guidelines and puling from essentially the same size pools for their athletes (drawing 20 soccer players from 1800 students, for example). Since a AA team draws 20 soccer players from 750 students, we have the different classification to be FAIR. Private schools can draw from an entire area of the state, or even the whole state. Not fair.

Why are there salary caps in pro sports? Fairness.

Why are male and female sports separate? Fairness.

Why does college have different Divisions? Fairness.

A state finals in soccer between the top girls public schools would NOT be a drop off in quality, but it would be a fair finals, parallel to the other classifications.

Actually, in the case of the salary caps, in the psat decade, the New York Yankees didn't have a salary cap and even today their salary cap is ALOT higher than the others. So in the case of fairness, but I guess it pertains to certain situations.

I am arguing the CONCEPT is an effort at attaining fairness. As with the high school league classifications. That attempt doesn't always succeed, however. With both salary caps and classifications. I think A/AA public schools are asking for fairness, and not whining—that's my point.

Why are some private schools in SCISA and others in 1A/2A?