A Florida high student and his parents sued his current school district. The school district deems the student to be ineligible to play sports according to its transfer policy and wanted to enforce the rule immediately. However, The school district and the student came to an agreement, which will allow the student to re-gain his eligibility and participate in further athletics at his current high school this year. Seeing that the school districts rules on transfer policies were stricter than the FHSAA, really bothered me. It seem to me that the FHSAA rules would be more extreme, because of their professionalism in that area of creating rules for high school athletes.

The transfer polices stated that any student that transfers from any other high school outside of their designed school zone would be barred from playing any sports for one calendar year. The rule also stated that any student that transfer due it be because of moving or school of choice will be ineligible to participate in sports; unless they are cleared by the Student athletic transfer committee. The student’s lawyer argues that their they where under the impression that when a student transfers from another school and the school boards allows the student to enroll in that particular school: the …show more content…
The FHSAA seems to be more professional in this area of sports and its high school athletes; why did their rules on transfer policy conflict with the boards? The FHSAA rules state that students who transfer to a new school are eligible to play sports, if the have been enrolled there since the beginning of the year. The student had transferred to the school last spring, and had not participated in sports since his freshman year at the other high school. Moreover, the student address were he lived was the correct school