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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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