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Post by laffysoccermom on May 25, 2014 6:08:59 GMT -6
My daughter heard at school that LHSAA had changed the rules that allowed 8th graders to play on high school teams? Just curious if this is the case or if possibly her school decided to disallow it next year and she misunderstood.
It won't affect us but I was curious.
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Post by gryphon8s on May 25, 2014 8:00:18 GMT -6
My daughter heard at school that LHSAA had changed the rules that allowed 8th graders to play on high school teams? Just curious if this is the case or if possibly her school decided to disallow it next year and she misunderstood. It won't affect us but I was curious. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using proboards Sections 1.5.2 and 1.31 in the LHSAA handbook address this. Don't know if it's updated. lhsaa.org/uploads/handbook/Section_1-Eligibility5.pdf
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Post by laffysoccermom on May 25, 2014 8:19:16 GMT -6
If that is updated, doesn't look like it has changed. May be something our school is doing or may be just an unfounded rumor.
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Post by beauchenecoach on May 26, 2014 6:55:25 GMT -6
That isn't correct. 7th and 8th graders can play. The handbook hasn't been updated yet with newly passed rules from January unless they were effective immediately. But there are eligibilty issues effecting students under 9th grade and it was all in the parish line boundary zone proposal which basically rewrote most of the eligibilty section dealing with zones and "accidentally" left a few things out or changed things that many people probably didn't read close enough. The proposal isn't up anymore as only the digest is on the regular part of the website. If I remember correctly, the main part dealing with 7-8 graders (no one under 7th grade can play) is that once these students now register with the LHSAA as a junior high kid, they will no longer get a school of first choice in 9th grade and be inelgible in 9th grade at the new high school. So parents need to be aware of that! If you are at a school for junior high and planned on attending a different high school, do not let your child play JV or Varsity sports at the school in junior high. If you do, now your child will be considered a transfer and sit a year. And I wonder if any schools are going to notify their junior high kids of these consequences of playing JV in junior high? Its a Trap like situation and I don't like the rule. Parents and players could be trapped into a situation when they think that they are just giving their child a great chance to play a JV sport as a junior high player, but they are really committing their child to that high school permenantly. I can't believe principals passed this rule. Also realize that starting next year, no longer are there any chances for a IS that is inelgible for any reason to play JV as a freshman anymore. If you attend a private school out of zone as a freshman and are inelgible, you can't even play JV or freshman anymore. Inelgible is inelgible for ALL levels and situations now. The eligibility rules are vastly different next season.
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Post by p_malinich on May 26, 2014 7:20:38 GMT -6
That isn't correct. 7th and 8th graders can play. The handbook hasn't been updated yet with newly passed rules from January unless they were effective immediately. But there are eligibilty issues effecting students under 9th grade and it was all in the parish line boundary zone proposal which basically rewrote most of the eligibilty section dealing with zones and "accidentally" left a few things out or changed things that many people probably didn't read close enough. The proposal isn't up anymore as only the digest is on the regular part of the website. If I remember correctly, the main part dealing with 7-8 graders (no one under 7th grade can play) is that once these students now register with the LHSAA as a junior high kid, they will no longer get a school of first choice in 9th grade and be inelgible in 9th grade at the new high school. So parents need to be aware of that! If you are at a school for junior high and planned on attending a different high school, do not let your child play JV or Varsity sports at the school in junior high. If you do, now your child will be considered a transfer and sit a year. And I wonder if any schools are going to notify their junior high kids of these consequences of playing JV in junior high? Its a Trap like situation and I don't like the rule. Parents and players could be trapped into a situation when they think that they are just giving their child a great chance to play a JV sport as a junior high player, but they are really committing their child to that high school permenantly. I can't believe principals passed this rule. Also realize that starting next year, no longer are there any chances for a IS that is inelgible for any reason to play JV as a freshman anymore. If you attend a private school out of zone as a freshman and are inelgible, you can't even play JV or freshman anymore. Inelgible is inelgible for ALL levels and situations now. The eligibility rules are vastly different next season. I don't have time right now to dig through the details. I do have the 40 page copy of the agenda for the January meeting if that's the document you're referencing, Chad. I'm attaching it here. I thought someone had posted that full disclosure would be required by the schools, including a signed document explaining rules to parents/players. I'm not sure what (if any) punishment if that doesn't happen (and whether player would still lose eligibility). Anyway, here's the proposed version (MS Word) of the issues for the January meeting. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by laffysoccermom on May 26, 2014 7:21:47 GMT -6
Thanks Chad. Appreciate the update. Mine didn't play high school last year as 8th grader. We don't have a girls team and they allowed 8th grade boys to play but not girls.
She will be a freshman this year. She wants to try to play on the boys team until the point that we may be able to field a girls team. Regardless she says she is not switching schools.
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Post by wmrebsoccer on May 28, 2014 15:10:36 GMT -6
I saw that they are proposing different birthdate cutoffs for the fall, winter, and spring sports for eligibility purposes. A student could potentially be eligible for football or cross country and then too old to play soccer in the winter or softball in the spring. I don't see how they could change those dates now. Would they have to grandfather in every single kid that is in grades K-11 right now? I see lawsuits a plenty if this one passes.
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