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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 2:06:48 GMT -6
Can anyone explain to me why I shouldn't be upset with the ruling I received yesterday for my daughter at the LHSAA hardship meeting. I am a single mom working two jobs who was sending my daughter to a catholic school. The second job was very much relied upon to pay the tuition. Well to make a long story short I ended up with cancer, lost my second job, applied for tuition assistance and was denied from the catholic school my daughter attended and I had no choice but send her to a public school. If this is not hardship then I don't know what is. A week before this meeting we had to send proof of all these things and I did exactly as told and didn't leave anything out. Sent proof of loss of job, of the cancer, a letter from my boss on why he couldn't work me anymore and other things as well. Yesterday they had all this proof in front of them but still ruled my daughter ineligible to play varsity sports. We had two votes for yes and needed one more. I was told I needed to plead my case more. In other words I needed to grovel, cry, and degrade myself. Now my daughter is sitting next to me this entire time and I have given them all the proof and I answered their questions and they wanted me to grovel in front of my daughter in room of 15 educators. This is about the child and she was supposed to watch her mom who has just gone through cancer plead for forgiveness for having cancer and losing her job and having to pull her out of her catholic school. Yesterday we cried all the way home. This child is a 4.0 student who maintained her grades the entire time while I had cancer and she took care of me also. If this is not a hardship case then what is. All the way home I apologized to my daughter for not being able to grovel like they wanted and apologized for having cancer and losing my second job because if none of that would have happen then she wouldn't have been pulled from her school. My daughter is a good kid who is being punished for my financial difficulties due to my loss of income,cancer, and inability to grovel and lower myself in front of them when every member sitting in the room had the proof. My daughter has seen the hardship we have and r going through and yesterday watching everything has taught her a valuable lesson. At her old school one of her friends transferred from another school but her father was a coach and because he was a coach and because of the rules she didn't have to sit out. It was his choice to leave the school he was coaching so why did he have a special privilege. I am just having a hard time with this ruling and how a group of educators who r supposed to care about kids determine who gets a hardship and they get to determine their faith.
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Post by publicgradprivatedad on Aug 24, 2017 7:01:56 GMT -6
Sorry you had to go through this.
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Post by kennypowers on Aug 25, 2017 17:31:17 GMT -6
So we need more details. So she enrolled at the school she is zoned for ( after leaving the catholic school) or another school that she isn't zoned for, and now she is ineligible? I thought if you lived school your zoned for, after leaving a private school, you are eligible.
Maybe that is why?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 22:57:39 GMT -6
Passing over your post I have to say that I am sorry you went through all of that. It is a shame indeed. To be ruled eligible is almost possible these days unless money is involved.
As for your child's friend who transferred, if her father has been a full time coach for at least 3 years prior and I stress FULL-TIME she would be eligible to go there, but the circumstances have to be really clean.
I am sorry you have gone through this as I said. I have read the by-laws and they are extremely complex and lengthy in scope.
I am still mystified how some kids are cleared and others aren't. Your assumptions are as good as any.
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Post by eag on Aug 31, 2017 14:56:38 GMT -6
Can anyone explain to me why I shouldn't be upset with the ruling I received yesterday for my daughter at the LHSAA hardship meeting. I am a single mom working two jobs who was sending my daughter to a catholic school. The second job was very much relied upon to pay the tuition. Well to make a long story short I ended up with cancer, lost my second job, applied for tuition assistance and was denied from the catholic school my daughter attended and I had no choice but send her to a public school. If this is not hardship then I don't know what is. A week before this meeting we had to send proof of all these things and I did exactly as told and didn't leave anything out. Sent proof of loss of job, of the cancer, a letter from my boss on why he couldn't work me anymore and other things as well. Yesterday they had all this proof in front of them but still ruled my daughter ineligible to play varsity sports. We had two votes for yes and needed one more. I was told I needed to plead my case more. In other words I needed to grovel, cry, and degrade myself. Now my daughter is sitting next to me this entire time and I have given them all the proof and I answered their questions and they wanted me to grovel in front of my daughter in room of 15 educators. This is about the child and she was supposed to watch her mom who has just gone through cancer plead for forgiveness for having cancer and losing her job and having to pull her out of her catholic school. Yesterday we cried all the way home. This child is a 4.0 student who maintained her grades the entire time while I had cancer and she took care of me also. If this is not a hardship case then what is. All the way home I apologized to my daughter for not being able to grovel like they wanted and apologized for having cancer and losing my second job because if none of that would have happen then she wouldn't have been pulled from her school. My daughter is a good kid who is being punished for my financial difficulties due to my loss of income,cancer, and inability to grovel and lower myself in front of them when every member sitting in the room had the proof. My daughter has seen the hardship we have and r going through and yesterday watching everything has taught her a valuable lesson. At her old school one of her friends transferred from another school but her father was a coach and because he was a coach and because of the rules she didn't have to sit out. It was his choice to leave the school he was coaching so why did he have a special privilege. I am just having a hard time with this ruling and how a group of educators who r supposed to care about kids determine who gets a hardship and they get to determine their faith. We had 2 kids over the last few years transfer after their jr year from a private school and play as a senior at a public school. The reason, as I understand, was that the public school was the one they were zoned for and the private school did not share the same zone or something like that. In both cases, the issue held forth as the reason was transportation. In at least one case, the original panel declared the kid ineligible, but it was reversed on appeal. Appeal it!
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