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Post by dogso on Mar 19, 2015 18:38:28 GMT -6
Can anyone share their experience with LHSAA eligibility appeals? I am considering changing my sons school. His current public school is not meeting his academic needs, looking to move to a private school. Talking to LHSAA, he will not be eligible to compete for one year, but they say the principal at new school can appeal. Has any coach or parent gone through this process? Does LHSAA typically approve?
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Post by theirishman on Mar 19, 2015 19:40:04 GMT -6
What would be the basis for the appeal? Academic needs probably wouldn't be an approved reason. You have to move to a new area or the like to appeal, I believe.
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Post by pshenton on Mar 19, 2015 19:53:48 GMT -6
Your son is almost certainly going to be denied if the principal chooses to appeal, and will definitely be ineligible. I had a player 5 years ago spend a year in public school after his dad was laid off and his mom was sick, thankfully his mom recovered and his dad found a new job, but was still inelligible after he returned to private school as a sophomore. I begged the AD to appeal but he refused, telling me it would be a waste of time.
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Post by soccermom3 on Mar 19, 2015 20:32:31 GMT -6
I experienced an unsuccessful appeal. We live in La and spent one year at a private school in Ms due to living in a failing school district for 8th grade. Then came to a La high school. Ineligible for varsity for a year but did play JV games.
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Post by agsurfer on Mar 19, 2015 20:45:27 GMT -6
I have been involved in LA high school sports since the 70's and believe only a handful have ever gone through. I would make it quite clear to your son that he most likely will be ineligible for the next school soccer season. If he is ok with this, then I see no reason to not switch. Now, this can be very hard on the players making this move, he will need a great support group, especially if he played this year. Additionally, speak to the coach to get his thoughts. I know St. Paul's had a transfer last year and one this year. From what I have been told by parents, the coach welcomed the players, but would not roster them. He included them in all team practices and functions. His kindness reaped big rewards with the first boy this season, as he was the teams leading scorer, tied for first in assists, MVP of the championship game. The second student will have big shoes to fill. Goes to show how treating your players with dignity and respect can pay out in a big way. I would hope all coaches acted this way.
Good luck to your son no matter what decision y'all reach.
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Post by laffysoccermom on Mar 19, 2015 21:38:22 GMT -6
I thought they had made a change about you have one public choice and one private. I remember someone posting about it where you could go from public to private abd be eligible or from private to public but only once. I remember someone saying you could go public in 9th and then go private in 10th but if you went back to public you were ineligible for a year.
Going to try to find thread.
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Post by laffysoccermom on Mar 19, 2015 21:44:17 GMT -6
I can't find thread where I thought I saw that so disregard. I may hace dreamed the whole thing up.
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Post by brsoccerdad50 on Mar 19, 2015 22:01:40 GMT -6
The LHSAA's new rule adopted last summer was that once a student established his first school of choice and transferred within the same parish he/she would be ineligible for a year.
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Post by coachray40 on Mar 20, 2015 8:34:55 GMT -6
There are a few corollaries to the issue of eligibility but theres a fairly regular concept--if you change schools without moving you wont be eligible.........period. Now, there are some ways to become eligible, but in most cases it will involve a BONAFIDE change of address to the new schools home attendance zone to be eligible. Yes, we still have home attendance zones that reference back to 2014 in the case of student athlete transfers, even though we now have parish line attendance zones. There are also some exclusions for eligibility issues when transferring between school districts in the same parish. My child attends Ascension Christian and played there as a 7th grader--this established AC as his school of first choice. AC shares the 2014 attendance zone with East Ascension. We also live within that same EA attendance zone, so if he left AC and transferred to EA in 9th grade he would have to sit for 1 year. If he were to leave AC, and then we moved to an address within the 2014 home attendance zone of either Dutchtown or St Amant, even though they are in the same parish (and now the 2015 home attendance zone of Ascension Parish), he would be eligible to play as we had made a bonafide change of address. This would be the case also because he would be moving from private to public, and because Ascension Parish is not a selective attendance school district (meaning if you live in the Dutchtown district, you go to Dutchtown, you cant choose to go to EA or St Amant). So to wind this all up, If you are moving from a public to a private, you played last year, and you arent making a bonafide change in address, then you ARE NOT going to be eligible for one year.
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Post by playwide on Mar 20, 2015 9:01:20 GMT -6
Very recently a situation of moving from a private to private was appealed/approved on the basis of the player being "bullied" at her previous school and needing to move to new school. Be creative.
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Post by agsurfer on Mar 20, 2015 9:11:19 GMT -6
These attendance zones/districts have been in place for decades. Public school kids would move from house to house depending on what sport was in season and who had the best chance to win. This is where the "bonafide" move was created from. Additionally, all private/parochial schools have set boundaries, but can accept students from across the region. These out of district students are ineligible to play varsity sports their first year in the school. The private to public or public to private doesn't matter.
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Post by p_malinich on Mar 20, 2015 9:20:09 GMT -6
2 years ago (I think) I heard of a Private to Public switch due to financial reasons and as far as I could tell, the player was immediately eligible. Don't know what needed to be done behind the scenes.
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Post by laffysoccermom on Mar 20, 2015 9:21:46 GMT -6
K. Thanks. I don't know where I got that. I really thought I remembered a first choice public and a first choice private but will concede that may have been all in my mind.
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Post by dennissystemfc on Mar 21, 2015 8:10:02 GMT -6
Can anyone share their experience with LHSAA eligibility appeals? I am considering changing my sons school. His current public school is not meeting his academic needs, looking to move to a private school. Talking to LHSAA, he will not be eligible to compete for one year, but they say the principal at new school can appeal. Has any coach or parent gone through this process? Does LHSAA typically approve? Might I ask what school he's moving from?
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Post by dogso on Mar 22, 2015 8:08:56 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies. Doesn't appear promising.
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