As expected, no action taken at OSSAA meeting
The Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association’s Board of Directors met in executive session for nearly three hours Tuesday to go over the proposals from the committee it chanrged to look into public/non-public school issues.
The committee made its recommendations—which included a pair of multiplication factors added to the enrollment of non-public/private schools and an automatic one-year sit out period for Oklahoma students transferring or moving into one of those schools—at last week’s regularly scheduled board meeting.
As expected, the board took no action Tuesday.
They are expected to vote at the April 13 meeting whether or not to send all or part of the proposals to a vote of the membership.
“There was a lot of healthy discussion in the executive session at the last meeting and this one today,” OSSAA executive secretary Ed Sheakley said. “It’ll be up to the board to make a decision at next month’s meeting.”
Several of the proposals would not need a vote of the membership, though the multiplier and change to transfer rules would require the vote. Also requiring a vote would be the addition of a non-public representative to the board, another of the committee’s recommendations.
The 17-member committee was appointed last summer after several other proposals to the board by a group seeking change were voted down.
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I understand the frustration but there are certain things in this proposal that not only could bring legal action but there’s a chance that action could be successful. They want to be sure that whatever they send out will hold up in court if challenged. In talking with OSSAA executive secretary Ed Sheakley after the proposal was released initially, he said the OSSAA wouldn’t be scared off by the threat of legal action, but it wanted to be sure that if anything was sent to a vote of the membership (because, let’s face it, whatever gets sent out for a vote that will help the public schools is extremely likely to pass), it would hold up to a legal challenge.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see what the board votes to do at the April 13 meeting.
ossaa is just as backwards and good ole boy system as the ok legislator. corruption to the core. it is very simple, you are a private school, you already want to be seperate from public schools, so why can’t you have your own class? if private schools had any honor they would stand up and simply demand that they have their own class. playoffs is what matters, so when the playoffs start you play other nonpublic/private schools. simple. a multiplier just creates more problems.
Why are public charter schools lumped into this proposal with the private schools?? Charter schools are getting clobbered by other schools already. Do they want our kids to be now be winless in every sport?
Certainly none of the charter schools are competing much athletically right now, so it would hurt those schools even further. The concern from the committee and those pushing change, though, is about these schools (and the magnet schools and Native American schools) being able to control their enrollment numbers.
God forbid OSSAA having the wisadom to do what the rest of the country has done – create an even the playing field. They are more worried about legal threats and maintaining the status quo then doing the right thing. If you are entitled and come from an elite private school, OSSAA will go to great lengths to make you happy. Screw the rest of the kids