The opinion
ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING
ADAMS, Justice.
The Birmingham City Board of Education (“Birmingham Board”), as amicus curiae on application for rehearing, has posed a fact situation that it concedes is unlikely to occur, but which, if it did occur, would fairly demand a result different from the one we reach in this case. It is our experience that this Court functions best when addressing real fact situations that present concrete issues properly preserved for review. Thus, although we understand the problems that would be presented by the Birmingham Board’s hypothetical and are sympathetic with its concerns, we prefer not to address that hypothetical; until real facts arise and such a case is actually presented, any statements we might offer would amount to an advisory opinion.
APPLICATION OVERRULED.
HORNSBY, C.J., and MADDOX, ALMON, SHORES, HOUSTON, STEAGALL and INGRAM, JJ., concur.