Officials in SC are not assigned by a local association. If I'm not mistaken, the SCHSL makes all assignements. I would imagine that they simply make it a policy since they may otherwise not be familiar with individual situations.
A different issue is where an official works at a school. We havew quite a few officials who teach. We do not allow those officials to officiate a team from their school. I think would be a much greater conflict than having graduated from a school 20 or 25 year ago.
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