According to MetroNews, a proposal from school principals and athletic directors to make a separate class for sports for eight private schools in West Virginia was rejected by the state Board of Education Thursday on a 6-1 vote.

 

Board members chose a rarely used option and decided to vote the proposed rule down before it went out for a 30-day comment period.

 

West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission Executive Director Bernie Dolan brought 28 proposed rule changes to the board covering various sports with the most controversial one being the private school classification proposal. The state Board rejected it and put the other 27 out for the comment period. Votes are expected on those proposals in July.

 

Dolan told the state board the SSAC’s legal counsel advised the SSAC Board of Control voters (principals and athletic directors) there were legal issues with the proposal, but it passed anyway in a vote earlier this spring, 100-24.

 

“They want to put them in their own class, personally I spoke against it,” Dolan told the state BOE. “I had my legal counsel come and speak against it and they still voted it in (as a proposal).”

 

State Department of Education General Counsel Heather Hutchens told the state Board Thursday there are possible legal ramifications with the proposal.

 

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Editor's Note: Photo of private school Notre Dame's recent sectional win in baseball by www.benqueenphhotography.com.