TRANSFER CRITERIA

TRANSFER CRITERIA

OHSAA checklist

Schools superintendents have criteria in deciding whether to grant a safety and well-being transfer. Here is what the Ohio High School Athletic Association tells the superintendents to consider:

Is there a situation that exists at school that poses a threat to the student’s physical well-being or mental health?

Is that threat significant enough that the student would be in jeopardy if he or she stayed?

Has a responsible adult or parent provided you with documentation that stipulates the nature of a current threat?

The exemption is not to be approved except in the narrow circumstances related to the physical or mental well-being of the student.

Situations that might warrant the transfer include: a student being physically threatened by another; a student who is suffering from a mental illness or emotional problem diagnosed by a health-care professional that would preclude him remaining in your school; or a student who has been the victim of a crime or has witnessed one.

A student should not be granted a transfer because they want to be with friends, they don’t like a school’s academic program, they have had a disagreement with a coaching staff member, their parents cannot afford tuition, or they are dismissed from a school for disciplinary reasons.

Source: Ohio High School Athletic Association