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Rule 18 - Scholarship

A. Yes, an academically ineligible student at the end of a Grading Period or end
of a semester is academically ineligible for the next Grading Period. (rule 18-
1.6)
Q. 18-5 If a student is academically ineligible at the end of a Grading Period or a
semester, when can the player become academically eligible?
A. If, following a period of academic ineligibility a student successfully meets all
academic requirements during a succeeding Grading Period, the student will
be eligible to play on the date the principal certifies grades for the succeeding
Grading Period. Here the student would be eligible on the certification date
for the succeeding Grading Period. (rule 18-2)
Q. 18-6 Is a student, who was academically ineligible during the first Grading Period
of the fall semester, but who then meets the scholarship requirements during
that first Grading Period, eligible to play the night of the last day of that first
Grading Period?
A. The date of academic eligibility following a period of academic ineligibility
depends on the Eligibility Certification Date established by the student’s School.
Based upon the grades from the just-completed Grading Period, a student
will becomes academically ineligible, or will become academically eligible,
on the School’s Eligibility Certification Date. Here, if the School’s Eligibility
Certification Date is the last date of the Grading Period, then the student would
be academically eligible to play sports that day, but if the School’s Eligibility
Certification Date was the following Tuesday, for example, then the player
would be eligible the following Tuesday. (rule 18-2)
Q. 18-7 Is a student who is expelled from a School for one (1) entire semester, but
who Enrolls at the School the next semester, academically eligible beginning
the first day of that next semester?
A. Yes, provided the student had passed Seventy percent (70%) of the maximum
number of full credit high school subjects or the equivalent for the semester of
student’s Enrollment prior to the expulsion. (rule 18-1)
Q. 18-8 Is a student who was expelled from school during the middle of a semester,
academically eligible for the first Grading Period following the period of
expulsion?
A. The student’s academic eligibility following a mid-semester expulsion is based
upon what happened to the student’s credits and grades. If the student was
expelled and all grades for the semester were lost, then the student would not
have met the requirements of passing Seventy percent (70%) of the maximum
number of full credit high school subjects or the equivalent during the student’s
last Grading Period and would be academically ineligible during the first Grading
Period following the student’s re-Enrollment. But if the student was permitted
to attend an alternative school or have a similar arrangement, post-expulsion,
and was permitted to ‘keep’ the pre-expulsion class credits/grades and was
permitted to continue classes, then the student would be academically eligible
during the first grading period following the student’s post-expulsion Enrollment,
provided the student passed Seventy percent (70%) of the maximum number
of full credit high school subjects or the equivalent. (rule 18-1)
Q. 18-9 Is a student who was passing Seventy percent (70%) of the maximum number
of full credit high school subjects or the equivalent and then dropped out of
school for the remainder of the Grading Period, and did not receive any grades
for the Grading Period, considered eligible under the scholarship rule at the
beginning of the following Grading Period?
A. No, the student would fail to meet the requirements of passing Seventy
percent (70%) of the maximum number of full credit high school subjects or
the equivalent the student’s last Grading Period of enrollment. (rule 18-1)
Q. 18-10 Is a student who has been out of high school for a semester or more, and who
has played on a Non-School Team during that time, eligible academically when
re-Enrolling at a School at the beginning of a semester?
A. This is not an academic issue. Non-attendance at a School alone or playing on
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