How to cover HS tranfers?

We had a kid who transferred because he didn't like a coach at one school, the high school sports organization made him sit for a year because it was obvious he transferred for athletics. My SE told me had he said the old school did not offer a program that the new school did he would have been eligible, anyone know anything about this kind of thing being true?

 

There were a couple of athletes at my high school that took ROTC since the other school in the district didn't offer it.

 

Yes. If you transfer for "academic" reasons or change residences, you don't have to sit out.

 

Agreed. If the kid stays at his current school, yo look atupid of you hadn;t talked to them.

But if they told you he was transferring, and he stays, you're good.

 

Not in every state. In Louisiana, "academic reasons" still means sitting out a year unless it's done before ninth grade or a few other exceptions.

 

Of course. Whose going to switch schools for academic reasons in Louisiana?

 

At a former stop, a common way around the can't-transfer-for-sports rule was to sign up for the IB program at a noted wrestling power, enroll and then drop the program.

 

I got burned by one of these deals once on the best athlete we'd had in at least 15 years. I had everything nailed -- even had a confirmation from the superintendent of the kid's new district that the paperwork had been received -- but didn't have a quote from the kid or his family.

Wrote it in late July. Come early September, he was still at his old school.

Technically, I had everything right (except for the first-person confirmation), but I had to chalk it up as a blunder rather than a scoop.

Reiterating what's already been said: Get it from the horse's mouth.