What Is Your State Transfer Policy?

Wisconsin

Can transfer at any time until start of sophomore year. Or if you start practice with a team after freshman year before sophomore year. Like practice one practice with football then decide to transfer to school across town.

Penalty for transferring after start of sophomore year is losing one year of varsity athletic eligibility.

There are transfer waivers for certain cases. All heard and decided by wiaa

If you move and transfer you are 99.9% allowed to play for example.

In Arizona, you have to sit out half of the regular season games the next season. It is a tougher penalty than it used to be but still has not been much of a deterrent for kids heading to these "destination" schools. It has got so bad that Arizona will now have an open division playoff this year. The open division will consist of the top 8 teams regardless of class in 4A-6A. This was done because it had become a foregone conclusion who would be the State champion in 4A,5A, and 6A. This way at least they will all compete in the same tournament.

Yes, but schools are hundreds of miles apart in the MW 

If parents are divorced in our state they get three moves I believe. Iowa forced schools to co-op if they didn't have a certain size student body.

Not considered a valid change of residence if parents divorce. Kind of a screwed up thing. You have to apply for hardships but they rarely pass.
They have recently made AD’s collect a whole load of
Documentation in order to prove a valid change of residence. It’s a pain but a necessary one because of all the shadiness that goes on around here.

option1 what is the difference between those students choosing to attend those schools as a Frosh, or transferring before their Jr.  years with regards to creating "have and have not" programs? 

I guess I am asking why transfers seem to be the issue, as opposed to just open enrollment and school choice policies. 

Because while there is that "little league" crew that thinks they have a clue, IME transfer most often happen after in one way or the other players are "identified" as being better than their current situation.

I think your language here subconsciously subverts your argument that it is not "kids vs adults" By using the term "their kids" you are essentially saying that because a kid grows up in a certain part of a certain area code (or even just happens to be living in that location when they hit 9th grade) that their skills, talents, and gifts somehow belong to that particularly school and are for the express use of the adults in that school? You can't paint it any other way, that is what you mean.


I will be honest here, I think saying that students in schools (particularly those that aren't participating in the sport in question) and communities as a whole are "suffering" because a few talented 17 year olds decide they would rather attend a different school is a bit hyperbolic.



I see this a lot (numbers being considered a safety issue) but honestly I think it is a red herring. You only play 11 at a time, and most teams are not playing many more than 15-16 kids that much. Even if a team is playing 22 starters and a smattering of different kids in special teams, they are still only playing maybe 30 kids until the game is decided.

I believe that the injuries that occur "with low numbers" generally reflect the fact that a low number program has other deficiencies (causing the low numbers) and therefore the kids are physically weaker. If you are saying it is a safety issue because the transfers are leaving you with an entire squad of kids that aren't physically mature enough to play at the level their schedule dictates--well that may indicate that said school simply doesn't field a program capable of competing at that level and should look to play some type of independent schedule.



I think there absolutely is a kids vs adults angle here and why shouldn't those things be compared? Why should the fact that a kid lives on Harrison street mean that he "has" to go to School A even though things aren't working out for him? But a coach who is offered a "better" job is free to do so? Why aren't those the same? If you are going to assert that schools and communities "suffer" because Johnny decided he wanted to transfer to Jefferson High after a few years of Lincoln, then it MUST hold true that Johnny and his family would "suffer" by staying at Lincoln.

Just another step closer and more examples of why it may not be bad for US sports to leave the school system.  And trust me, I feel your frustration.  Louisiana is going through a very frustrating time right now, with separate playoff systems for "non select" (public) and "Select" (private and a few public schools with select admissions" teams.   Of course, nothing is simple and it has become apparent that many "non-select" teams that have dominated recently pretty much operate just like the private schools regarding the ability to enroll anyone.   

Also, I just think the country as a whole is experience a period of growing inequality (have/have not) in all sorts of areas.  A mindset that "if I am not first, it isn't worth it" is growing.  There is a mind shift on the concept of competing and playing, as demonstrated by the college football transfer portal.  That won't change, as it has shifted power to the individual.  Generally once this happens, it never goes back. 

Lastly, I wish I could help you with Louisiana's transfer policy, but I honestly have no clue anymore.  It used to be if you attended a school out of your "attendance zone" you had to sit a year.  If you moved into the new zone, you were eligible immediately.  

Safe to say that this issue is a touchy one for all. But I ask you this, are you forced to stay where you hate it?

"hey your a great WR, best in the county, but you live X and here at X we run single wing son, we throw the ball 3-4 times a game". Is this what is best for the kid?

Answer it like a parent, not like a coach.....what would you do as a parent? Would you as a dad, really look your kid in the eye and say "stay at X"....would you really??

I hate transfer policies. Zero reason a state athletic association should have a say in what a parent can do with their child. How is a move for athletic reasons a bad thing if it’s what the family wants?

For the record we get zero transfers that are not in the foster system. We also lose zero. So maybe I’d have a different opinion if we did.

Just don’t get why that should be the case. If a school is willing to take them I just don’t see who it really hurts.

Yes it does sound ok. I’m not his parent and if a parent decides that they want their kid to go to any school for any reason, I don’t feel it’s my place to stop them or punish them.

How are academics a more legitimate reason that sports? Is there any school in America that graduates zero successful kids? I get school is school, but who are any of us to tell someone what they should prioritize in their child’s education? People leave for better jobs all the time. People leave jobs, towns, etc. for various reasons. Changing schools for academics, band, chess club, etc is really not much different than leaving for sports. Maybe it changes your kids future. Maybe it doesn’t. But I just don’t think anyone should tell a parent what to do with their kid as long as the kid is being taken care of (food, water, shelter).

If someone wants to leave bad enough they will find a way. Maybe we should ask why they leave in the first place?

I don’t have a dog in the fight. No one is moving to our town for athletics and our kids probably aren’t leaving to go somewhere else. Just have always thought it was crazy to try to prevent kids from leaving schools.

Life isn't fair.  I am so sick of this fairness crap.  Is it fair for my kid or any kid to play on a crappy team, crappy coach, crappy scheme, with crappy support and crappy equipment, just because he lives in X town.  Fair, if life was fair, squirrels would have machine guns and Hawks wouldn't F*(& them....fair.  Like it or not there are good coaches and bad coaches.  Why is it fair to stay in a bad coach's program?  Fair....screw that, earn your salt, nothing in life is fair, and frankly the sooner we teach kids this and stop trying to make crap fair, the better off they will be when life jumps up and kicks them in the nuts, because life will and it inst fair.