Annual postseason school population inequity rant

Check the brackets for the teams mentioned in the previous post, 3A and 5A, and see how many private schools are in the bracket.
Check this bracket twice a week for the next three weeks.
Check the brackets for 1A and 2A also.
After basketball season is over, see who won in every classification. Ask yourself if FHSAA needs to take action.
Why? Because private schools take up a number of bracket places and win state championships with a frequency disproportionate to their numbers in the state. This is because, although FHSAA accepts their enrollment numbers as representing their actual student population in the same way as public schools, the fact is that private schools can draw from a population up to 100 times larger than the same size public school.
Some states deal with this by having a separate private school conference. Other schools allow private schools in the public school conference, but handicap their population numbers up, to account for how much larger a pool the school can select from.
Check out this comprehensive analysis of state high school athletic associations from Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Oh.
Several states, including New York, Virginia and Texas, exclude private schools from the public school conference. Other states allow private schools but handicap their population numbers, like Alabama. Others sort their classes by past-season wins, not population. Still others allow private schools and simply force them into a higher division.
But also note that, some states have playoff systems that are, astonishingly, even screwier than ours.
I guess normal is what you know.