[johnnyd]

In my opinion, it is not fair or right to have to count the boys from alternative schools if they are not eligible to play. This causes a team whose enrollment is on the cutoff to have to play in a bigger class. (ex: 2A for regular high school enrollment, but makes you 3A due to counting the alternative placement) If teams choose to play teams in a bigger class to get the experience, then that would be fine, but having to count them when they are ineligible to play, just hurts the team and the school.

Every school (public) pretty much has an alternative school so how is it not fair? They used to not count alternative numbers and schools caught on and started to stash kids in those schools to drive number down. So what is more fair? Counting your total kids, or allowing schools to artificially control their numbers.