Academic Eligibility
All students are encouraged to take part in all extracurricular and athletic activities. They are also expected to study, complete assignments on time, and learn a great many things. Individual coaches and advisors may set specific expectations for the students taking part in extracurricular and athletic activities. These will be explained in and included with the training rules and introductory materials provided to students and parents by the Athletic Department.
Teachers may require that students report for extra help from 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm each day. The additional 45 minutes is part of the regular school day.
Students who make the effort to get additional instruction regularly will be more successful. Students who have athletic practices at another site after school are still required to attend after school help if assigned by a teacher. Coaches will not assign consequences to students who are late for practice due to attending extra help at school.
Eligibility for Attendance at athletic games and/or extra-curricular activities
A. Students who are suspended from school on a day of an athletic game or practice session, party, school dance, or other school affair scheduled after regular school hours are not eligible for participation or attendance at such events.
B. Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes to be present for extracurricular events that evening. This includes participants and spectators. If a student is tardy to school for three days in a month they will not be allowed to participate in ANY extra-curricular activity the day of their third tardy and any subsequent days that they are tardy that month. This includes games, practices, dances, theatrical performances, or other extra-curricular activities. This does not include band/chorus concerts as these are a graded part of the curriculum. If a student is tardy to school two days in a month they will not be allowed to participate in open gym for the rest of the quarter. A student is considered tardy if they arrive to school late. The only exceptions to this will be a doctor’s note, a funeral, or a previously cleared college visit/job shadow. The days reset at the beginning of each month.
Eligibility for Participation
All students in grades 7-12 will receive progress reports at 5 weeks and 10 weeks. At each pre-selected date, teachers will have students log into their SchoolTool account to check their grades. Teachers will communicate with students that if they are failing they will need to meet the obligations set forth below. The office will mail home mid-term report cards at the 5 week mark.
At 5 weeks:
The 5 week report will determine extra-curricular eligibility. Students who are failing a subject (64% or below) will be removed from unstructured study hall and placed in a structured study hall during the school day. They will also be required to stay after school. The number of nights they need to stay after school is equal to the number of courses that they are failing. This will occur Monday through Thursday. If a student doesn’t stay after school the required nights, they will be given a detention to be served in addition to their required nights the next week. Administration may decide to have a student serve ISS, if no effort was made to stay after school. Students who are failing 2 or less subjects will be allowed to fully participate in after school activities. A student who is failing a course will remain on the eligibility list and will need to comply with all requirements of being on said list until their grades are brought up to passing.
Students who are failing 3 or more subjects (64% or below) will have to meet the same criterion above, however, until their grades are brought up to passing. If a student who was failing 3 or more subjects (64% or below) brings one of their subjects up to passing when a new list is generated will be allowed to participate under the same conditions as those students who were failing 2 or less subjects (64% or below). If a student who was failing 2 subjects or less (64% or below) ends up failing a third subject when a new list is generated, they will follow the same criterion above for student passing 2 or more subjects.
Students in 7th and 8th grade who are participating in a Modified, JV or Varsity level activity, or who are taking high school level courses in middle school, will also be held to these standards. 9th grade students who are playing on a modified team will be subjected to the ineligibility policy.
