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3.020
SCHOLASTIC STANDING
3.021 3.022
3.023 3.024
3.025
They shall be doing passing work in at least twenty-five (25) credit hours of high school work per week.
Physical Education can be used as a .50 credit class to meet the 25 credit hour requirement, even if the member school is giving academic credit less than .50 or no credit at all. Students must be passing Physical Education in order to use the class towards academic eligibility.
Schools that offer only five classes per day may request a waiver annually from the IHSA Board of Directors to require the passing of at least twenty (20) credit hours of high school work per week to be eligible for participation.
They shall, unless they are entering high school for the first time, have credit on the school records for twenty-five (25) credit hours of high school work for the previous semester. Such work shall have been completed in the semester for which credit is granted or in a recognized summer school program which has been approved by the Board of Education and for which graduation credit is received.
Physical Education can be used as a .50 credit class to meet the 25 credit hour requirement, even if the member school is giving academic credit less than .50 or no credit at all. Students must be passing Physical Education in order to use the class towards academic eligibility.
Schools that offer only five classes per day may request a waiver annually from the IHSA Board of Directors to require the passing of at least twenty (20) credit hours of high school work for the previous semester to be eligible for participation.
They shall not have graduated from any four-year high school or its equivalent.
Passing work shall be defined as work of such a grade that if on any given date a student would transfer to another school, passing grades for the course would immediately be certified on the student’s transcript to the school to which the student transfers.
Work taken in junior college, college, university, or by correspondence may be accepted toward meeting the requirements of this Section provided it is granted credit toward graduation from high school by the local Board of Education.
Illustrations for Section 3.020 of the By-laws
The illustrations and situations it contains are for purposes of assisting in understanding the application of the particular by-law to which they pertain. In the case of any conflict, whether actual or believed, between the illustrations, examples or situations in this publication and the constitution or by-laws of the IHSA, the constitution and by-laws shall control.
85) BECOMING ELIGIBLE AFTER PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY
Q. If a student who has been scholastically ineligible for the current semester passes twenty-five (25) hours for the current semester which ends on Friday, January 19, when is the student eligible to play?
A. A student who is ineligible for a semester is ineligible until the day the high school certifies the semester grades for all students in the school. (By-law 3.022)
86) HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION
Q. If a student is placed on homebound instruction, does the work taken count toward scholastic eligibility requirements?
A. This work can count if the student receives credit toward graduation for the work taken under homebound instruction. (By-law 3.022)
87) CREDIT FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Q. May a school count physical education classes toward academic eligibility requirements? A. Yes. Students may also receive credit for physical education waivers.
88) WITHDRAWN “PASSING”
Q. If a student withdraws from school after 65 days of attendance in the fall semester with passing grades at that point, and does not attend school again until the first day of the succeeding spring semester, is the student scholastically eligible for the second semester?
A. Probably not. Attending school for more than ten days in the fall semester causes that semester to be counted as a semester of attendance. The student must pass twenty-five (25) credit hours of high school work for that semester in order to be scholastically eligible in the next semester. “Withdrawn passing” is not considered to be passing work for the semester. This student will be ineligible for the spring semester unless the record shows that he/she passed and received credit toward graduation for at least twenty-five (25) hours of high school in the fall semester. (By-laws 3.022 and 3.024)
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