Delaware Administrative Code
Title 14 - Education
1000 - Student Activities
1029 - Student Athlete Eligibility: Transfers
Section 1029-2.0 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 14 DE Admin Code 1029-2.0
Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024

The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, shall have the following meaning:

"Athletic advantage" means any transfer where the primary reason for the student's transfer was for any of the following reasons: to seek a superior team; to seek a team more compatible with the student's abilities; dissatisfaction with the student's position or playing time; to follow a coach to another school to which the coach has transferred; dissatisfaction with the philosophy, policies, methods, or actions of a coach or administrator pertaining to interscholastic athletics; to avoid disciplinary action imposed by another state athletic association; or to avoid disciplinary action imposed by the sending school related to or affecting interscholastic athletic participation.

"HIB transfer" Delaware school bullying prevention law, a state law that public schools are required to follow and non-public schools are encouraged to follow, harassment, intimidation and bullying (HIB) are matters that are investigated and addressed by the school. The DIAA does not hold hearings to determine whether a student was bullied or has suffered from mental health issues. A "HIB transfer" will exist when a school, after investigating a HIB complaint, determines that the proper action to remediate the complaint is an alternative placement or a school transfer.

"Participate" or "participated" means having played or joined in an interscholastic tryout, practice, scrimmage, or contest.

"Receiving school" means the school a student transfers to after leaving their previous school.

"Sending school" means the school a student transfers from to go to a different school.

"Transfer" means the student has officially withdrawn from the sending school and has officially enrolled in the receiving school in accordance with the receiving school's established registration process.

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