Amy….Our HS season started yesterday…she played jv last night and tonight.
We had discussed the possibility of an attorney for even making the appeal but AD said his experience has been that it has not made a difference. So we are doing it ourselves and will see what the next ruling is at the hearing.
I don’t think we will carry it further with an attorney if they deny full eligibility. The season will end by the time anything could happen with that route. Depending on the final ruling, I will contact our representative with a few suggestions and grievances about the process.
In the mean time we are getting her mentally ready for either scenario…by pointing out the bad and good of each scenario. We are working on that jug of lemonade!
My understanding about the jacket thingy is… we also have to buy the jacket but it’s the Varsity Letter that they receive that goes on the jacket that is the big deal.
They said the final decision could be in a couple days or a couple weeks.
Ivy’s dad…I understand what your saying….that could be the case and I agree that if she had of changed jobs, it would be a stronger case….however we sent paper work with the appeal proving that she was actively seeking employment from 5 different schools beginning shortly after the transfer…she simply wasn’t offered any…so we will see.
Please note before I go on that I appreciate your input. I also wanted it noted that I do not care which she plays. She cares, she earned it and we believe she has been done a wrong.
If they had of told us when she transferred that she would not be eligible for varsity….she would of still transferred….however doing so AFTER she has earned it, waiting a whole semester, then a whole summer, then till after tryouts, then after 3 weeks of practice and then 2 working days before the opener is a joke imo.
(quote Ivy’s dad) there was no change in circumstances, however, so expecting your DD to remain at her previous school and play softball for them is not an unreasonable expectation of the state. Transferring mid-year also raises red flags.(unquote)
I am ok with a red flag for transferring in mid year…I can understand that it might seem like it was for athletics... however….the state should have no expectation of my child, except that she is passing her grades and behaving while at school and a good citizen. Btw..she is in honor Math and Science classes and is and always been a straight A student. Grades comes first...everything else second.
I also have a problem with the “state” having the ability to ASSUME it was about sport and then having the ability to take action that affects my childs life BEFORE they have even talked to her parents.
I also have a problem with their process because she is being penalized the same as someone who transferred via exemption 1 that has been dismissed, expelled or suspend from their previous school…they too are not allowed to participate on the varsity team.
(quote Ivy’s dad) On the up side, your DD is only a sophomore. If she plays JV this year, she'll still have two years to play on the varsity team. Definitely not perfect, but I don't see significant harm in having her play JV for a year.(unquote)
Yes, at least she gets to play and if that is the way it ends up, I am fine with it, we will make lemonade and she will get fine with it…..however this again is the problem I have with the situation…It shouldn’t be someone else’s role to say there is no significant harm in having her play JV for a year. That very well could be their (the states) attitude about it during this hearing. It should not be the role of the state to say whether her playing on jv or v is good for her, bad for her or significant or no significant harm to her.
She did not transfer because of softball. In my mind I shouldn’t even have to be proving that, the burden of proof should fall on the state to prove why they believe she did and why they are punishing my dd.
I will not even bring up the issues that SoftSocDad brings up…such as you can change for band, science, speech etc.
Now you can see why my teacher wife had to re-write my grievances to the board. She wrote hers, I wrote mine, we meshed them, she edited out most of mine! Her letter started out “ I would like to explain”…mine started out “Explain to me..” haha
We had discussed the possibility of an attorney for even making the appeal but AD said his experience has been that it has not made a difference. So we are doing it ourselves and will see what the next ruling is at the hearing.
I don’t think we will carry it further with an attorney if they deny full eligibility. The season will end by the time anything could happen with that route. Depending on the final ruling, I will contact our representative with a few suggestions and grievances about the process.
In the mean time we are getting her mentally ready for either scenario…by pointing out the bad and good of each scenario. We are working on that jug of lemonade!
My understanding about the jacket thingy is… we also have to buy the jacket but it’s the Varsity Letter that they receive that goes on the jacket that is the big deal.
They said the final decision could be in a couple days or a couple weeks.
Ivy’s dad…I understand what your saying….that could be the case and I agree that if she had of changed jobs, it would be a stronger case….however we sent paper work with the appeal proving that she was actively seeking employment from 5 different schools beginning shortly after the transfer…she simply wasn’t offered any…so we will see.
Please note before I go on that I appreciate your input. I also wanted it noted that I do not care which she plays. She cares, she earned it and we believe she has been done a wrong.
If they had of told us when she transferred that she would not be eligible for varsity….she would of still transferred….however doing so AFTER she has earned it, waiting a whole semester, then a whole summer, then till after tryouts, then after 3 weeks of practice and then 2 working days before the opener is a joke imo.
(quote Ivy’s dad) there was no change in circumstances, however, so expecting your DD to remain at her previous school and play softball for them is not an unreasonable expectation of the state. Transferring mid-year also raises red flags.(unquote)
I am ok with a red flag for transferring in mid year…I can understand that it might seem like it was for athletics... however….the state should have no expectation of my child, except that she is passing her grades and behaving while at school and a good citizen. Btw..she is in honor Math and Science classes and is and always been a straight A student. Grades comes first...everything else second.
I also have a problem with the “state” having the ability to ASSUME it was about sport and then having the ability to take action that affects my childs life BEFORE they have even talked to her parents.
I also have a problem with their process because she is being penalized the same as someone who transferred via exemption 1 that has been dismissed, expelled or suspend from their previous school…they too are not allowed to participate on the varsity team.
(quote Ivy’s dad) On the up side, your DD is only a sophomore. If she plays JV this year, she'll still have two years to play on the varsity team. Definitely not perfect, but I don't see significant harm in having her play JV for a year.(unquote)
Yes, at least she gets to play and if that is the way it ends up, I am fine with it, we will make lemonade and she will get fine with it…..however this again is the problem I have with the situation…It shouldn’t be someone else’s role to say there is no significant harm in having her play JV for a year. That very well could be their (the states) attitude about it during this hearing. It should not be the role of the state to say whether her playing on jv or v is good for her, bad for her or significant or no significant harm to her.
She did not transfer because of softball. In my mind I shouldn’t even have to be proving that, the burden of proof should fall on the state to prove why they believe she did and why they are punishing my dd.
I will not even bring up the issues that SoftSocDad brings up…such as you can change for band, science, speech etc.
Now you can see why my teacher wife had to re-write my grievances to the board. She wrote hers, I wrote mine, we meshed them, she edited out most of mine! Her letter started out “ I would like to explain”…mine started out “Explain to me..” haha
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