Rule 28A-7 transfer rule - is it Hayfield fallout or were these always to have been rules?

[Anonymous]

Rule 28-A7 says “ IMPORTANT NOTE: All students who change school are ineligible, by default. FCPS provides an application platform for students to provide the documentation that is necessary to become eligible following a change of schools.”

Has rule been updated post Hayfield or was in place last year and Hayfield got waivers? Curious if all the bolded language in rule is new or FCPS just now calling it out post Hayfield?

https://www.fcps.edu/get-involved/athletics/athletic-eligibility-and-transfer-gateway?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

FCPS bolds “ The original residence must be abandoned as a residence…The entire family must make the change …The change must be made with the intent that it is permanent…. A transfer should be for the welfare of the student and/or school system and not for athletic and/or academic activity purposes.”

[Anonymous]

It doesn't stop kids from transfering before 9th grade to play sports at a certain school

[Anonymous]

Ah a rule amendment. But recruitment and pretend addresses will still happen anyway.

The hayfield issue was and still remains that they did it at such a large scale and brought social media attention to themselves

3-5 kids and keeping things quiet not making noise, douche bag would still be Coach, dumb dumb would still be athletic director, and his highness wouldn’t be having everyone say what a bad principal he is.

Volume and attention plain and simple.

Didn’t make it right but I guarantee it will happen this year somewhere else (but at a very small level with no pub)

[Anonymous]

Curious- on athletics and activities page for FCPS it says scholastic academic bowls and debate teams are also governed by VHSL. Does that mean a student couldn’t be on debate in 1 HS and move to another FCPs and be on debate too? That seems odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious- on athletics and activities page for FCPS it says scholastic academic bowls and debate teams are also governed by VHSL. Does that mean a student couldn’t be on debate in 1 HS and move to another FCPs and be on debate too? That seems odd.

Keep reading. They cannot participate in the sport or activity until they’ve demonstrated that they’ve met the eligibility requirements. If you’re attending School A and on the debate team, you cannot register for, start attending and join the debate team at School B in one fell swoop. You have to go through the eligibility process before you can be on the debate team at school B.

[Anonymous]

So if you transfer for Japanese at Langley HS for 9th grade, you are ineligible by default and have to make an appeal to join Debate or Football, etc. I suppose winning appeals is not guaranteed.

If you apply and are accepted to TJ, since that is a governors school, you do not have to make an appeal to play VHSL sports. You just play for TJ automatically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if you transfer for Japanese at Langley HS for 9th grade, you are ineligible by default and have to make an appeal to join Debate or Football, etc. I suppose winning appeals is not guaranteed.

If you apply and are accepted to TJ, since that is a governors school, you do not have to make an appeal to play VHSL sports. You just play for TJ automatically

Ok so how about if at TJ for 9th and on debate but decided to go back to base school for 10th…. bc a transfer have to sit out of debate for year?