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A little late on this discussion but you guys might find this interesting:
My group (within the past 2 or 3 years) initiated a Conflict of Interest form that we had to fill out. Among the questions were:
1. What High School did you go to and how long ago did you graduate? (Most officials in our group are from the area we serve)
2. Do you have any sons/daughters/relatives attending any of the schools serviced?
3. A few other personal questions about other conflicts of interest.
The end result was that any official who had graduated high school in the area less than 15 years ago could not work those school's games. Besides this and the other predictable "kids going to the school, etc, etc", I don't know what other conflicts have come up that have prevented officials from working certain games.
I'm not 100% sure why this came up. However, a few years ago, there had been rumors flying around that there was some errors assigning officials to a rivalry game where all the officials were alumni of one of the schools playing.
While I don't know if any of this is true, it makes sense if our group wants to avoid future conflicts of interest.
Like some of you said though, lots of officials I talk to have no tied to their former high school. For myself, I would not want to work my old high school's boys games since I watch them at games when I can (head coach's first year was my senior year).
If I could, I would work the girls games since I don't know the players or coaches of the girls program.
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