What about the kids in the rural areas of the state, who have NO choice of schools? It might be 25 miles to the next school...or farther. How would it be fair for them to compete against a small school in an urban area?
Once again the ones who suffer the most, are the smallest.
The entire public school vs private school really only affect the small rural schools. The class 6A and 5A schools could care less about the privates because they have the sheer numbers to compete with anyone.
Where the biggest problem lies here is with the small schools being incapable to compete with hand picked students on a year in year out basis. Most small schools have up years and down years. I think you will find the privates have "higher" up years, and "higher" down years in comparison.

It's not just the private schools vs the public schools, but also the "richer" vs the "poorer" and the "better" vs the "worse"... and not just in athletics.

How many times do you think it happens that parents move into or out of a school district because one has nicer buildings/campus than another, a better educational reputation than another or even is school that is the "in" school to attend this year.

Growing up also in a small rural school, there were always rumors of kids "transferring" to another school because it was better than ours. And it wasn't always for athletics.

I have nothing against private schools, I just don't think they should be competing with public schools in athletics. I believe we should make it as fair as possible and I think the private schools have an unfair advantage. I'm all for Private vs Private and Public vs Public.