The policy is not absolutely rigid.
Many accommodations are available.
If students and schools agree and arrange, students can take some or all of their courses in another facility and remain eligible at their base school. In each case, a close connection between students and the schools they represent in sports must be maintained. We have no quarrel with those who choose alternatives to public schools. They should have this prerogative. And likewise, schools should be allowed the prerogative to limit their teams to their own students.