AMEN.
Bunty, you apparently do not understand how this works.
Any private school is welcome to compete against any public school, but to do so that means they have to join OSSAA and follow the same rules as everyone else. Plenty of schools have done this. Go check out the OSSAA average daily metric (attendance) and you can see all the private schools on the list. In OKC, most notably Bishop McGuinness
http://www.ossaa.net/docs/2022-23/Cl...022-23_ADM.pdf
Now MOST private schools choose on their own NOT to do that because they do not want to follow those rules. There are groups like Heartland Athletics, Oklahoma Christian Schools Athletics Association, But it's the absolute choice of the school if they want to participate in OSSAA or go their own route. But it also means that if you want to play against everyone else, you have to follow the same rules as everyone else. In this case, this is a prime example of people like Walters wanting to have their cake and eat it too. They want to give public tax money to private schools to go make up their own rules. They can go win any number of "state championships" they want in their 6 school leagues, but it's just a farce.
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