The SC High School League can’t seem to win.

The league is in hot water with state lawmakers again.

There was the business about transgender athletes.

Lawmakers saw this as letting former boys compete in girls’ events. This has not yet been a problem in our state, educators tell me.

In Connecticut, transgender boys ran off with the trophies in girls’ events.

A possible solution is to allow transgenders to compete in their own events.

This will allow girls to compete against each other without the disadvantage they have against former boys with greater strength.

Some lawmakers want the league to take a stand against what they consider to be progressive opportunists pushing transgender surgeries for children.

To my knowledge, the league has done nothing. Are they only waiting to

Are they only waiting to see what the progressive in Washington come up with?

Athletics for all

The state Senate last week debated the merits of another school sports-related bill.

This one would allow private school students to participate in athletics at a nearby public school if their school does not offer a program in their sports.

Se. Katrina Shealy of Lexington told me this would allow a student at, say, the King Academy to play tennis at Batesburg-Leesville High if his school didn’t offer a program. She thinks the bill has a chance.

Lawmakers have already given home-schooled students the right to participate in public school activities.

When this was proposed for private schools, the House education committee rejected it by a vote of 8-8.

Supporters offered to restrict the access to middle school sports to help students who intended to transfer to play for their public high school but had to qualify in middle school.

That also failed.

The opponents questioned how public schools could access private school records to ensure students are and remain eligible.

State taxpayers send billions of dollars to Columbia each year. The lions’ share goes to the pubic schools and their activities.

Private school students’ parents pay the same as the rest of us. But they have the added cost of private school because they believe, right or wrong, that their kids will be better prepared for life.

Supposedly the money the taxpayers send to the public schools follows the students. That’s not always true.

We know parents who have successfully sued the public schools to get money for their autistic children to attend special schools. Since these parents pay for other kids to play sports, why can’t their private school kids do it, too?

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