The Virginia High School League (VHSL) is the lone sole arbiter of interscholastic competition among Public High Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private or religious schools are prohibited from participating. Non-public schools belong to other organizations, the largest of which is the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association. A 2008 proposal in the Virginia General Assembly to allow homeschooled "public square absent" students to compete failed to pass. The VHSL was not originally an athletics sanctioning body and continues to sponsor championships in several academic activities.
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