Is it fair for closed enrollment schools to play open enrollment schools?

[TeeterTot]

http://tnhighschoolfootball.com/open-enrollment-good-bad/

 

[F5seekshelter]

Is life fair? 

[tradertwo]

The public education system in Tennessee allows each school system to formulate their own policies. City systems, special school districts, and county systems all have the option of educating kids from outside their geographical boundaries, and to set the price of tuition. If a system is closed zone, it is because that is the way that the board chooses to operate, and that's why I have to say that it's "fair".

   Now for the opposite viewpoint...open zone schools in urban area's have a monumental advantage over rural open zone systems and closed systems alike. There was an option proposed to TSSAA last year during the public/private split discussion that would have had urban open zone schools and privates placed in the same division, separate from the rural open zone  and closed zone schools for that reason.

   Most people would define "fair" as no advantage to anyone, and for the TSSAA's purposes that is impossible. The rural/urban split would probably have come closest to the ideal, but would have two different entities (taxpayer funded publics and private owned) still in the same classification...not what most call fair. Sorry for the complicated answer to a simple question, but it just ain't that simple.

[Indian]

In some ways a rural-urban split would have made opportunities more equal. You still have magnets, etc that people will fuss about. But the nearly complete public private split is much better than what's been in place for decades. 

[ReitzFan]

Let's just eliminate the playoffs and let all teams schedule exactly who they want to schedule.  At the end of the season, give everyone a trophy.  

Geez, let's just stop the whining, let's line up and play some football.