6145.1
Instruction
The
East Haddam Public Schools offers its students a variety of co-curricular
activities, athletic and non-athletic, at the secondary level. While realizing the importance of these
activities in the development of the whole child, the district believes that a
student’s primary focus should be within the classroom.
Students
who are not succeeding in the classroom must concentrate their efforts at
improving their academic performance and should not be distracted by the
requirements of co-curricular activities.
Policy adopted: September 14, 2004 EAST
HADDAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Moodus,
Connecticut
6145.1
Instruction
To
be eligible to participate in any school sponsored co-curricular activity, the
following conditions must pertain:
1. A
student must be registered for seven (7) full-time courses or their equivalent
each quarter.
2. At
the conclusion of the previous quarter, a student must have passed at least
four (4) full-time courses or their equivalent.
3. Scholastic
failures cannot be made up for eligibility purposes in any manner until the
next report, except that credits earned during the summer by any regularly
approved Board of Education procedure will be accepted for the purpose of
determining the eligibility of students desiring to participate in the
co-curricular program of the school in September. Scholastic incompletes must be made up within ten (10) school
days following the date that student eligibility was determined for the
respective marking period as defined above.
Incomplete grades are not to be considered as passing grades.
4. A
student may not receive two (2) or more grades of "F" in any
quarter. At mid-term of each quarter, progress
report grades will be reviewed by the administration. If a student has received any grades below a C, he/she will be
placed on academic probation. Parents
will be notified. Students on academic
probation will be monitored throughout the remainder of the marking
period. If their grades improve by the
end of the quarter, they will be taken off of academic probation. If they fail to show improvement, academic
probation will continue and the student may become ineligible to participate in
extra-curricular activities. This
decision will be made by the administration and the activity advisor and/or the
coach. At the end of the marking
period, the Nathan Hale-Ray High School eligibility rules will be enforced.
5. At
the conclusion of each quarter, the principal shall notify each ineligible
student of his or her status.
6. A student may appeal declaration of ineligibility to a
committee composed of an administrator, appropriate department coordinators
(who, wherever possible, do not teach the failed course), a representative of
the pupil services staff, who shall serve as the student's advocate, and a
student council representative.
7. Decisions
of the committee may be appealed to the Superintendent of Schools.
8. Decisions
of the Superintendent may be appealed to the Board of Education or a committee
thereof.
6145.1(b)
Instruction
Co-Curricular Eligibility (continued)
9. Notwithstanding any of the above, all
student athletes will conform, as a minimum, to the requirements of the
Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference.
Regulation
approved: September 14,
2004 EAST HADDAM PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
Moodus,
Connecticut