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Ask the Interpreters A Chat with Debbie and Roxanne Session with the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association October 4, 2010 Goals for this Session • Discuss Compliance Areas that have posed problems for our members • Direct members to resources to help in the area of student eligibility • Provide answers to specific questions relating to student eligibility – or any other topic International Student Rule • International Students – Bylaw 4-8-1 – Students are ineligible in Ohio member schools. Exceptions: – 1 – Student and parents move into Ohio or have lived here – 2 – Visitor Exchange Program – 3 – Student is adopted by Ohio citizens – 4 – Student and parents are US citizens but the parents reside outside the USA (missionaries, military, business, etc.) Residence Rule • Out of State Parents – 4-6-3 – Student ineligible in an Ohio member school. Exceptions: – 1. Change of legal custody for reasons that protect the student – 2. Attend 15 days in grade 11 – 3. Continuous enrollment from grade 1 – 4. Continuous enrollment in a parochial elementary school from grade 4-8 – 5. East Liverpool exception – 6. Boarding school exception – 7. Military children – Please use OHSAA POA Transfer Eligibility • Major area of questions • OHSAA has developed a “Transfer Bylaw Resource Center” on the web site at http://www.ohsaa.org/eligibility/TransferBylawGuida nce.htm to assist schools • All principals and athletic administrators received email guidance on most of the major transfer issues this summer The Basic Rule – 4-7-2 • If a student transfers high schools after establishing eligibility – Plays in a contest prior to school in the fall of grade 9 – Attends any high school the first five days of grade 9 • The student will be ineligible for all sports at the new school for one calendar year • Transfer means to change schools at any time after establishing eligibility as a 9th grader • If the student does not change schools, he/she remains eligible at the school where eligibility was first established Parents’ Bona Fide Move Exception 1 • Exception one of Bylaw 4-7-2 • Parents move into a new school district • Triggers choice of either the public high school in the new district or any non-public high school • Move must be contemporaneous – within the last calendar year • Note “Parents” – plural • Note: Residence Bylaw 4-6-1 defines a Bona Fide Change of Residence Parents’ Bona Fide Move • What should the school administrator do? – Interview the parents – Check custody documentation – Q #12 on the Affidavit – Review the Affidavit of Bona Fide Residence with the parents – Sign the front page along with both parents – Ask the parent to take the actual affidavit to a notary – Review the document after it is notarized – Send to OHSAA – Be prepared to check on the residence periodically, document the visits, and do so at “off hours” Major Problems with the ABFR No custody information supplied - #12 Move made prior to the last calendar year - #8, #13 No Driver’s license/ID with current address - #17,#18 No Voter Registration (note that this does not compel the individual to actually vote) • No school administrator signature • Failure of school personnel to check up on the residence • Move not between two public school districts • • • • Legal Change of Custody Exception 2 • Exception two of 4-7-2 • When a court-ordered change of custody results in the student’s change of school district, this triggers: – Choice of the public high school in the new custodian’s school district – Choice of any non-public school • Requires an actual legal change of custody, not a Power of Attorney or an affidavit for school attendance Legal Change of Custody • What must the school administrator do: – Obtain the court order and insure that it is a legal change of custody signed by a judge or magistrate – Draft a letter to either Deborah Moore or Roxanne Price stipulating • The person named in the custody document is a resident of the new school district into which the student is moving • The student will live full time with that resident for one full year • Send a copy of the court order along with the letter Legal Change of Custody • Note: Redesignation of residential parent within a Shared Parenting agreement is NOT a legal change of custody Bona Fide Move of a parent in Shared parenting - Exception 3 • The only exception that mentions shared parenting • Allows for eligibility when either one of the parents in this agreement (both have legal custody) makes a bona fide move to a new public school district • Requires the ABFR • Triggers the choice of public school in the district of either parent or any non-public school • The same criteria as in exception 1 apply Enrollment and Attendance Bylaw 4-3-1 • Basic rule – Students are eligible only at the school where they are enrolled and attending FULL TIME • This rule prohibits eligibility for – home-schooled students – students at schools that do not sponsor certain sports – students who may want to participate on another school’s sports team – students who are in non-member schools Exceptions to 4-3-1 #1 – Separate 9th grade building #2 – JVS/Career Center #3 – Community school under ORC. 3314 sponsored by the Board of Education #4 – Postsecondary Enrollment Option #5 – Alternative school sponsored by BOE #6 – Home schooled but in partial enrollment in accordance with BOE policy (at least one course in the physical location of the school) #7 – STEM school Any other Questions?? Thanks for your attention!! Contact Us! Dr. Deborah B. Moore, Ph.D. – [email protected] Associate Commissioner Or Ms. Roxanne Price – [email protected] Assistant Commissioner OHSAA 4080 Roselea Place Columbus, OH 43214 614-267-2501