Thanks for posting this, but this is not a compromise. Getting the District Superintendent to sign-off is bureaucracy designed to stifle participation from what are fundamentally homeschool teams.
There have been no issues with the homeschool teams--and let's be fair about this--if there are issues, don't invite the homeschool team (or non-association team) to play in future contests.
Also, what protection is needed from non-member schools that isn't needed from member schools?
This whole policy, and the reasons stated for having it, is a red-herring. Let's go back to the way we were a year ago. If a team/school does not wish to allow a nonmember program to participate in a tournament--that is totally up to them. All homeschool programs I know of am aware that no one has to play them.
If there is a problem in a tournament/invitational, then the host school merely has to report the problem to SCHSL and SCHSL can advise other tournament hosts that there was a problem.
The reason the state representatives are asking is because some parents see the problem and they contacted their representative. Anyone can see, prima facia, this is a knee-jerk policy initiative. It can be fixed tomorrow.
