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    A UIL rule allows for inelligible students to participate in their sport during extended school holidays such as Christmas and spring break. What do you think about this rule? Have any schools been affected (positively or negatively) by this rule this year or in past years? Will it come in to play this year during soccer playoffs? Should this rule stay or be changed?
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The rule is put into place to not increase the punishment a player might receive for being ineligible, when he is about to become re-eligible by passing his classes.

For instance, a player is ineligible, then passes the 3rd six weeks before Christmas.  Since the school does not have the time to check and proof grades before they leave for the break.  The player now has to sit the entire Christmas holiday and the week following while grades are verified.  This player has now had to sit out an extra two weeks.  It also cuts the other way, how are we supposed to know who is becoming INELIGIBLE until we get back and can sift through grades? The same at Spring Break.

While it may benefit some players who will not be eligible either way, it does protect those players who have doen the right thing and gotten their grades back on track.

This year, our three week grading period ended the Friday before spring break.  Grades can't be verified until we get back after Spring Break. So my one ineligible varsity player was eligible during Spring Break, but became ineligible when we got back until Friday (today) when the grading grace period ends.  He still missed the same amount of time, but it gives us the ability to verify grades so no mistakes are made.
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