Sen. Leising has introduced SB 84, designed to end the abomination of class basketball in Indiana.
It provides that a school corporation may participate in an interscholastic athletics association only if the association does not conduct boys’ or girls’ interscholastic basketball games in which the teams are divided into classes
I think the ship has probably irrevocably sailed on this one, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Great idea, a decade too late. How Indiana.
I’m in favor of this bill. I believe I have some phone calls to make.
Ugh…seriously? This is what the politicians in IN are worried about?
Leave those decisions to the IHSAA.
The IHSAA, made up of principals and athletic directors, in whose best interests lie in having as many trophies spread out for display and résumé (their own) purposes as possible?
Still, you do have a very valid point about the legislature’s priorities.
Vicki, leave it up to the IHSAA? Is there a worse governing body than the IHSAA? Okay, maybe the NCAA.
Vicki, I’d rather the legislature worry about class basketball than right-to-work legislation.
Or DST, for that matter.
(ducks)
Class basketball has destroyed the “gem” of this state known as Hoosier Hysteria…..Indiana is known for it’s one class basketball tournament winner take all. Only two states in the US now have this single class format Kentucky being one of them. I pray…PRAY …that this Bill passes regardless of what others think. The IHSAA is made up of a good ol’ boy network governed by radical southern bias out dated fools.
Leising also wants to require that cursive writing be taught. Given her focus on bringing back the past in education, perhaps she will next offer a bill requiring slate chalkboards, with mandatory eraser-clapping time.