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Rule 18 - Scholarship

                    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
                    a Non-School Team does not impact a student’s academic eligibility.  Academic
                    eligibility turns upon the student’s academic success or lack of success during
                    the last Grading Period of attendance. (rule 18-1)
         Make-Up Work and Repeated Courses
         Q. 18-11   Can a student repeat a course and have the course count toward academic
                    eligibility?
         A.         Yes, if approved by the principal and a passing grade is earned and placed on
                    the student’s official transcript.
         Q. 18-12   Can a student, who has an incomplete at the end of a Grading Period in One
                    (1) of the five (5) courses in which the student was enrolled, make up the work
                    in the course, obtain a passing grade for the course, and be academically
                    eligible during the upcoming Grading Period?
         A.         Yes, but it depends on when the class work is made up and when the grade
                    is changed from  an  ‘I’ to a  passing grade.   Incompletes  can  be made up
                    and an incomplete can be changed to a passing grade, but in order for that
                    passing grade to count for eligibility purposes, the passing grade must have
                    been entered on the student’s records on or before the Eligibility Certification
                    Date, rule 18-5.  A School can request a hardship waiver to permit the student
                    to make-up the incomplete after the Eligibility Certification Date.  To obtain a
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