Private School to Public School Transfer?

[Rabble Rouser]

QUOTE(cbg @ Mar 8 2007 - 11:56 AM) 826404671[/snapback]Not true!!! If you transfer from a public to a private school or a private school to a public school without a physical residence move you are not eligible to participate in high school athletics for one season. However, you may request a hardship waiver and the board would have to vote on the hardship. I have never known the board not grant the request if the student/athlete goes from a private school to a public school but I have never heard of them granting the request if a student/athlete wanted to transfer from a public school to a private school or from one private school to another private school.

 

It makes you wonder what is going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Someone should look it up at tssaa.org. I'm too

lazy

 

However, I've never heard of a middle school kid switching schools while still in middle school and not being eligible.

If a kid in 8th grade plays a varisty sport at a school where the middle and high schools share campus, he loses one of his four years in school if he transfers.

Dozens of kids each year transfer from public to provate and vice versa between 8th and 9th grade and suffer no loss

of eligibility.

[Bighurt]

QUOTE(Rabble Rouser @ Mar 8 2007 - 02:51 PM) 826405096[/snapback]

Someone should look it up at tssaa.org. I'm too lazy . . .

 

From the TSSAA handbook page 13-15 -

Students Changing Schools Section 11. General Provisions. Residence. A student changing schools for any reason, to be eligible, must live at home with his/her parent(s) or guardian(s), unless: (a)the student is moving to a boarding school and has no athletic record the previous twelve months in any sport; (b)the student is moving as a direct result of the dissolution of the student's home due to death; ©the student is moving as a direct result of the divorce of the student's parents; or (d)the student is moving as a direct result of the separation of the student's parents, provided a complaint or petition for absolute divorce has been filed with a court having jurisdiction to grant the divorce. "Transfer Student" Defined. A transfer student is any student changing schoolsfor any reason other than having completed the highest, or terminal, grade at another school. A student who must change schools because he/she has completed the highest grade at his/her previous school is not considered a transfer student and is eligible to participate in athletics at any school he/she attends, without further approval, provided he/she satisfies the residence requirement above. Executive Director Approval Required. A school may not allow a transfer student to participatein athletics until his/her eligibilityhasbeen verified and approved by the Executive Director. The school is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the information supplied to the Executive Director for this purpose.

Page 13 June 14, 2006

2006-07 TSSAA Handbook

Participation While Ineligible. If a student who is ineligible, under these provisions regarding students changing schools, competes in a contest while ineligible, thenthe student upon becoming eligible under these provisions will nonethelessbe ineligibleto participate in twice the number of contestsinwhich he/she participated as an ineligible student or will be ineligible for the remainder of the season, whichever is less. Section 12. Eligible Transfer Students. Except as otherwise provided in Section 13 below, the following transfer students are eligible: a.The student has no athletic record inthe previous twelve months in any sport sponsored by TSSAA; b.There has been a bona fide change of residence by the student's parents or guardian. If such a change of residence occursbetween school years, the student must transfer at the beginning of the school year to be eligible. If the change of residence occurs during the school year, the student may transfer without loss of eligibility (1) at the time his/her parents change residence; (2) at the end of the next report card period; (3) at the close of the semester or term; or (4) at the close of the school year; c.The student changes schools as a direct result of re-zoning or reassignment of students by the local school system; d.The student is moving from a boarding school to the school serving the territory where his/her parents live, or vice versa, provided the student has attended the school he/she is leaving for a minimum of twelve months and provided the principal at the school he/she is leaving indicates in writing that the move is not for athletic or disciplinary reasons. The movemust be at the beginning of the school year. (Note: The school must be outside the day school territory of the boarding school.); e.The student is transferring to a senior high school in the same system into the earliest grade offered at that senior high school, i.e. at the student's first opportunity to move to that school. f.The student who has been determined by a Court to be dependent and neglected and consequently changes residences and schools as a result of a Court order; g.The first time the student changes residence from one parent to the other as a result of a court ordered custody change, so long as the principal of the former school attests inwriting that the move was not for athletic or disciplinary reasons; or h.The first time the student changes residence from a guardian to either or both parents as a result of a court ordered custody change, so long as the principal of the former school attests in writing that the movewas not for athletic or disciplinary reasons; i.The student is attending school where the student's parent works as a full-time employee, that parent takes a full-time job at a different school, and the student transfers to the school where the parent takes the new job. The transfer must take place when the parent takes the job or, if the job change occurs during the school year, the transfer must be made at the beginning of the following school year; j.The student who transfers from school A to school B and then returns to school A without having participated in any sport at any level or without practicing in any sport at any level at school B. This must be verified in writing by the administration of school B.

Page 14 June 14, 2006

2006-07 TSSAA Handbook

Section 13. Ineligible Transfer Students. The following transfer students are ineligible for a period of twelve months from the student's last participation date (these provisions do not apply to students who have no athletic record for the previous or current school year): a.A student who transfers without a bona fide change of residence by his/her parents; b.A student who transfers as a result of a change of residence is ineligible unless (1) the old residence is outside the territory of the new school, and (2) the new residence is both outside the territory of the old school and inside the territory of the new school; c.If a student has been ruled eligible as a result of a change of residence, and the parents or guardian return to the former residence before the student has been enrolled in the new school for one complete school year (or twelve months if the transfer occurred during the school year), the student will be ineligible for twelve months from his/her last participation date; d.If a student has satisfied all other requirements for eligibility but was under discipline at his/her former school, the student shall be ineligible at the new school for twelve months or until the disciplinary charges have been removed, whichever is less. If the ineligible student has an athletic record for the previous or current school year in football, basketball, baseball, girls softball, or track and field, the student is ineligible in all of these sports. In all other sports, ineligibility applies only to the particular sport in which the ineligible student has an athletic record for the previous or current school year.

[Voldad]

Again, from what i can tell here we are talking about a middle school student transferring to another middle school. I don't believe TSSAA rules even apply here unless this kid played varsity sport in 8th grade.

[Rabble Rouser]

QUOTE(Voldad @ Mar 8 2007 - 05:36 PM) 826405231[/snapback]Again, from what i can tell here we are talking about a middle school student transferring to another middle school. I don't believe TSSAA rules even apply here unless this kid played varsity sport in 8th grade.

 

Exactly. Middle and High school rules are different