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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS standard progress in the self-contained classes Fall Questions & Answers taken in a resource room which would be the equivalent of five courses offering a total of The following are questions and answers 2.50 units of credit or 70% of the maximum pertaining to the MSHSAA Constitution and allowable credit whichever is greater. Note: By-Laws and/or MSHSAA Board of Directors Inclusion of activities on the IEP as an policy. These are provided as an aid in educational service is not appropriate. (By- interpreting the rules and regulations which Law 213) MSHSAA member schools have adopted. If you have a specific area and/or question which Question 3: We have a student in our you would like explained, contact Dr. Kerwin school who has been invited to attend a Urhahn, MSHSAA executive director. Your softball evaluation event in late August. Our attention is called to the fact questions and school classes will not start until the Monday answers regarding interpretations of the after the event, however, the event is being MSHSAA Constitution and By-Laws appear conducted one week into our school softball on pages 64-86 of the MSHSAA Official season after starting the required 10 days of Handbook. conditioning. May the student attend? Answer: No. By-Law 242 clearly states Question 1: We have a family in our that a student representing his/her school in a district whose children are being taught in specific sport may not attend an evaluation their home. They would like their daughter to event for the same school sport during the participate in our high school volleyball designated school sport season. The season program. (a) Is she eligible and (b) could she begins with the first day of practice with all or become eligible after being ineligible for one part of the school sport squad. Thus, the year? Answer: (a) No. (b) No. The student in question would be in season since requirements of eligibility are specific in their practice has begun for the school team. stipulation that “. Any student who Restrictions regarding evaluation events in sports such as represents his/her school in interscholastic softball are covered in MSHSAA By-Law 242. See Question Question 4: We have a French teacher activities shall be a bona fide student and No. 3 for specifics about evaluation events that take place who lives in another district and is going to enrolled as an undergraduate student of the after the start of the school sports season. serve as a host family for a foreign exchange school . .” (By-Law 210) In addition, all student participating in a CSIET listed students in order to have the privilege to be required to meet the same academic program. If the teacher brings this student to participate shall be enrolled in classes which requirements and grading policies as any other our school will she be eligible for varsity allow them to earn 2.5 units of credit or 70 student in the class. When such a competition in all sports? Answer: No. percent of the maximum allowable credit determination has been made, no The residence requirement for eligibility whichever is greater and must have earned 2.5 modifications to grading will be made, and the applies to the foreign exchange student the units of credit or 70 percent of the maximum student will be expected to maintain academic same as all other students being that a student allowable credit whichever is greater the eligibility for interscholastic sports, music, is eligible with no restrictions only at the previous semester (By-Law 213). Credit is cheerleading, dance, academic competition, school where the parents residence is located recognized by the credits issued on the and speech as any other student. with the school’s established geographic student’s transcript at the member school. A The second option is for the IEP committee to attendance are. In this case the host family home schooled student is eligible just as any determine that a modification of the academic serves as “parents.” Application for hardship other student providing these same essential requirements or grading policies is necessary could be made providing it can be eligibility requirements for all students are to reflect the needs of the student and his/her documented there is an unavoidable hardship met. disability. In this situation, the modifications making it necessary to transfer. (By-Law 236 may include alterations in the type of and 238) In an effort to comply with Question 2: assessments to be given the student, the provisions of Public Law 94-142 for inclusion Question 5: One of the coaches in our number of such assessments given a student, we have “mainstreamed” several students who high school would like to serve as a host the number of items upon assessments given a have learning disabilities. In some classes, family for a foreign exchange student on a MSHSAA Journal August 2007 student, the amount of time the student will be they are not able to meet the same academic CSIET listed program. The student is an allowed to take the assessment, etc. The IEP standards as their classmates. How is their athlete. Will the student be eligible at our committee may also determine that grades will eligibility determined? In order school? Answer: No. A member of the Answer: be determined on the basis of the student’s for these students to be eligible to participate school coaching staff may not serve as a host progress towards achieving specific goals and in interscholastic athletics, music, speech, family to a student athlete attending your objectives from the IEP rather than standard cheerleading, academic competition, and school through a foreign exchange program. assessments given other students. If this type dance, they must receive passing grades in of modification is made, the IEP committee is Question 6: Our high school wants to courses offering a minimum of 2.50 units of responsible to specify the amount of progress enter into a cooperative sponsorship with credit or 70% of the maximum allowable which will be necessary to document that another high school in softball and baseball. credit whichever is greater for the semester. standard progress is being made by the Can we participate with each other this year Each school is responsible for establishing student. (2007-08)? Answer: No. This year, the academic requirements and grading policies If these students are placed in a schools will fill out the necessary application. to effectively accommodate students who have combination of one or more mainstreamed The physical sponsoring of the program been identified with having a disability in classes and are in a resource center for one or always coincides with the first year of the accordance with provisions of P.L. 94-142. more classes, then they must be either MSHSAA two-year classification cycle. Thus, The school district has two options with receiving passing grades in their physical participation as one team would respect to grading policies. First, the IEP mainstreamed classes and/or be making begin with the 2008-09 school year. committee may determine that the student will 1 NEWS Results of 2007 MSHSAA Annual Election Following are the results of the balloting date by which cooperative on the amendments to the MSHSAA sponsorship applications Constitution and By-Laws in the 2007 Annual must be submitted to MSHSAA Election by member schools. MSHSAA for all activities Amendments to By-Laws require a simple other than football. majority of those voting for passage, while Proposal No. 6 amendments to the Constitution (*) require a Junior High School two-thirds majority (321) for passage. Cooperative Proposals which passed will become effective Sponsorships July 1, 2007, with the exception of Proposal (passed) No.’s 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 29, 30 and 31 which 371 for, 102 against shall become effective immediately. Amends the MSHSAA Proposal No.’s 2, 25 and 26 will become By-Laws by adding new By- effective July 1, 2008 , Proposal No.’s 4 and 5 Law 107, by allowing for will become effective for the next application cooperative sponsorships at and classification cycle (2008-09 and 2009-10 the junior high level. cycle), Proposal No. 10 shall become effective July 1, 2009. Proposal No. 7 Approval of Non- *Proposal No. 1 Certified Annual Renewal of Membership Cheerleading and (passed) Dance Team 471 for, 9 against Coaches Amends Article III, Section 5-a of the (passed) constitution by revising the wording to 294 for, 119 against address the change to an online submittal of Amends By-Law 153 With the passage of Proposal 25, the MSHSAA football playoff system will change dra- membership and sports registration clarifying that a head cheer matically in 2008 with the top two teams advancing from district play to the state playoffs. information. The change also necessitated modifications in the first contest date, the preseason inter- or head dance coach must scholastic scrimmage date, and the number of days of physical conditioning. *Proposal No. 2 satisfactorily complete the Affiliate Registered School Coaches Education Program prior to coaching (passed) and that an assistant coach must complete this Amends MSHSAA By-Law 213, 315 for, 154 against program prior to any subsequent year. Academic Requirements, Grades 9-12, by Amends Article III, Membership, of the allowing a student to be eligible to represent a Proposal No. 8 Constitution by adding new Sections 6, 7, and member school in interscholastic activities Requirements by Sports 8 to allow for “Affiliate Registered Schools” provided the student is enrolled at the member (passed) on a two-year experimental basis. school and is taking at least two classes at that 469 for, 11 against member school plus classes through MoVIP *Proposal No.