Transfer policy creating free agents?
Free agents in high school? Today's article in the PI says a loophole in the student transfer policy may be allowing high school athletes to jump from program to program, without the mandatory one-year of ineligibility. Most recent case: Rainier Beach's Aaron Dotson, who transferred from Garfield last year. According to the PI, Rainier Beach says Dotson did not transfer for athletic reasons and is therefore eligible. Garfield reportedly disagrees. Is this the district's fault, or the schools? Should athletes have to sit out a calender year, no matter the reasoning behind the transfer?
Posted by http://blogs.king5.com/bio/jalfstad.js 
at 4:48 PM | Permalink
| Comments (1)
No they shouldn't have to sit out. We have a need for the WIAA to use judgement and common sense and look at each case individually. I transfered schools in high school because the high school I was at did not offer the classes I wanted to prepare for college. This is something the WIAA could have easily verified. I didn't play high school sports again. After a year off I had become so behind on my skills and development as a player I didn't feel competent to play. There are so many reasons why a high school student might trasfer schools. A friend of mines daughter was being bullied. She lived right on the border of two school districts. This is a great girl who is in honor and AP classes. Her mother tried working with the school but they were not much help. Her mother was able to get her enrolled in the high school in the other district but no one told her and she had no idea her daughter would not be able to play varsity sports for a year. This is another case in which the WIAA could be presented with the school records and police reports(yes, police reports as she was physically assaulted twice) and they could have used judgement and common sense. Life is not black and white and for the benefit of our children we need to look at each case indiviually on their own merits.