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Article: Public schools fouled private schools: Separate division is unfair, unlawful, impractical, divisive
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- April 11, 2006
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FOUL ball. Unnecessary roughness. Unsportsmanlike conduct.
Negative sports metaphors are too easy to reel off.
The majority of West Virginia public schools voted to exclude
private schools from tournaments that select state champions in
football, basketball, baseball and other high school activities.
On April 4, a majority of public school members of the body that
regulates inter-scholastic athletics voted to place all 14 of their
private school colleagues - including seven Roman Catholic and five
other Christian institutions - into a single, segregated class for
post-season competition in all sports.
The debate on so-called Resolution 11 during the West Virginia
Secondary Schools ...