And the High Schools Aren’t Much Better

Warm and fuzzy stories about the life and challenges of Gary McKnight [“Reign Won’t Go Away,” March 11] belong in the B section of the Times, where the only thing remarkable enough to set him aside from most of us is his survival of cancer.

But what McKnight has done at Mater Dei isn’t very “sporting” now, is it? He has leveraged the unique advantages of being a private institution to overwhelm community-based schools within a system of public competitions. The only schools with a reasonable chance of competing with him year to year are the few that can afford to do likewise. That’s not sports, that’s business. And that, too, is a different section of your paper.

Eric Hainline

Santa Ana