In late March, Paola High School principal Jeff Hines sat at attention listening to Bill Faflick speak at the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s executive board meeting and heard something promising. He even wrote it down.
“This is step one,” Hines wrote, transcribing Faflick’s words. “It’s mission accomplished, but it doesn’t stop there.”
Between executive board meetings held in January and March in Topeka, KSHSAA brought in representatives from every private school in Kansas to discus the findings of a January survey that showed more than 87 percent of Kansas high schools want a change to the state’s public-private dynamic.
Hines was a driving force behind the survey, which posed several questions about the desired future of public-private competition in Kansas high school sports.
“KSHSAA knows in its heart of hearts that there is an issue,” Hines said. “How could they not when 87 percent of the schools are saying there is a problem?”
(Read more: Wichita Eagle)