So the AD conference took place and the body voted again on a way to impact attendance zones which they believe will level the playing field.
The idea was to have a “net” that was created around private schools and sports magnet schools. The membership voted to have attendance zones assigned to those schools who once had open borders. All schools will now have defined attendance zones and may not have students playing for them outside that attendance zone unless they are in the said school’s feeder system.
An example would be that Oceanside would be defined as Wando’s attendance zone and could not pull kids from Lucy Beckham’s attendance zone or any other schools attendance zone without that player sitting out 365 days. This would also apply to most charter schools but not most magnet schools.
In the past, most attempts at this have failed because of state law that prevents charter schools from being treated differently than public schools. This particular motion was purposely written in a way to apply to all SCHSL schools the same. The impact will not be felt the same though.
One motion that failed, was to a motion to not allow the SCHSL executive committee to overrule the motion of the body at large. It appears unlikely the executive committee will overrule this particular amendment, thus forcing legislators that are unhappy to take it up at the state house.
