SICA secession settled.

"These kids are now taught to stick with your own kind, which is more profoundly damaging,” Piers said...
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Remember this one?

"It was equal. It was mixed. We had no other problems," Kapovich said. "Kids just want to play other teams and have fun."

"Different school have different ways of playing. That makes you that much better. That ups your game," Jeanita Eaves said.

"It didn't matter who was next to me, their name, what their religion was," Jones said. "Unity was felt through the whole team."

"You can trust them no matter what," Maxie said.

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Lawsuit Over Ill. League Breakup Settled

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 17, 2006
Filed at 8:39 a.m. ET

CHICAGO (AP) -- A civil rights lawsuit alleging that racism led more than two dozen high schools to pull out of a suburban Chicago athletic league and create predominantly white leagues has been settled, an attorney said.

The 33-team South Inter-Conference Association was one of Illinois' largest high school leagues when some of its members to decided in 2004 to realign.

Officials in those districts denied race played a role in the decision. The federal lawsuit, however, claimed the breakup created ''separate and segregated conferences'' and amounted to ''white flight.''

The settlement announced this week averts a trial that would have pitted predominantly black schools against predominantly white ones. Under its terms, five of the predominantly black schools will join two conferences that formed after SICA broke up, said attorney Burt Odelson, who represents several of the defendants.

''It's been just a long hard process, but all the superintendents and school boards from day one wanted it settled out of court,'' Odelson said Wednesday. ''The bottom line at all times was what would be the best for the kids in the district.''

The settlement must be approved by each school board, Odelson said. After that, both sides will ask a federal judge to dismiss the case.