7 minutes ago, Falcon Pride said:

This is going to be FASCINATING to watch unfold!!!

Lawyers and lawsuits looming on the horizon? I think that's what the statute was trying to eliminate, but I think it will still happen.

So if you move and thus change schools (assuming the district changed) you are good. If you don’t move and just change schools you sit. Is that correct?

 

How does this affect private schools? 

1 hour ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Kentucky has revised KRS 156.070 which is the statute that establishes the general powers and duties of the Board Of Education in relation to their management and control of interscholastic sports in the state.

The newly added text:

KRS 156.070 (2)(h)

Any student who transfers enrollment from a district of residence to a nonresident district under KRS 157.350(4)(b) shall be ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics for one (1) calendar year from the date of the transfer.

If the transfer to a non district residence comes from Ohio or Indiana for example, will they need to sit a year as well or only when transferring within KY?

2 minutes ago, FirstTimeLongTime said:

If the transfer to a non district residence comes from Ohio or Indiana for example, will they need to sit a year as well or only when transferring within KY?

That's another great question.

Maybe I am reading this incorrectly. I am reading this as if I transfer to a school in which I don’t live in that district I have to sit. So schools that accept students from outside their borders would be affected by this. 
 

If I move (from Indiana, Ohio or from wherever) and I move into a new district that becomes the district of residency. In that case I don’t have to sit due to this. 
 

That is how I am currently reading it. 

13 minutes ago, barrel said:

How does this affect private schools? 

This is on my mind too, one way of looking at it would be many freshman would have to sit out their freshman year period.  But that can't be right, right!?

3 minutes ago, barrel said:

Maybe I am reading this incorrectly. I am reading this as if I transfer to a school in which I don’t live in that district I have to sit. So schools that accept students from outside their borders would be affected by this. 
 

If I move (from Indiana, Ohio or from wherever) and I move into a new district that becomes the district of residency. In that case I don’t have to sit due to this. 
 

That is how I am currently reading it. 

That is how I am reading it as well. This only impacts transfers from one KY school to another. It doesn't seem to stop a student from living in Ohio or Indiana and attending a KY school al long as they do not transfer to another KY school. Same would go for a non district resident attending a school starting in 9th grade. As long as they do not transfer, they can live out of district. 

3 minutes ago, theguru said:

This is on my mind too, one way of looking at it would be many freshman would have to sit out their freshman year period.  But that can't be right, right!?

I don't think that is accurate. A ninth grader isn't transferring. 

1 minute ago, FirstTimeLongTime said:

I don't think that is accurate. A ninth grader isn't transferring. 

I am just thinking out loud.  My post was with the assumption that someone was going to public school K through 8 and then decided to go to private school starting in the 9th grade but not the private school closest to their residence. 

They sure did go the opposite direction of allowing a one time free transfer, didn't they?

3 hours ago, 9068 said:

Lawyers and lawsuits looming on the horizon? I think that's what the statute was trying to eliminate, but I think it will still happen.

I see the new clause in the law being challenged and ending up in front of the Kentucky Supreme Court sooner rather than later and winding up in an end-all-be-all ruling on the matter, potentially permanently reducing the number of court cases the state will waste money on to decide whether or not a 15 year old can play sports.

18 hours ago, theguru said:

This is on my mind too, one way of looking at it would be many freshman would have to sit out their freshman year period.  But that can't be right, right!?

The more I think about the more I believe this is how it will work with private schools. 
 

Private schools fall into pretty much two groups. Catholic schools or non Catholic schools. The Catholic schools will say that the student is moving from one in district school to another In district school without a change of address because the student lives in the diocese. Diocese appear to be fairly large areas. Non Catholic schools will pretty much claim that the whole state is their district because most don’t have boundaries as along as the student can make it to school. So in their case a student is moving from one district school to another in district school. 
 

The problem I believe is when you transfer to a school that has open boundaries. I’m just going to use Beechwood as an example because I believe you can attend there if you are out of district assuming you meet all the criteria. Criteria being financially you can pay any fees that may be required and meet any student standards (not a discipline problem etc). So if you live in Boone but not the Beechwood school district and you transfer you will have to sit. You are moving from a district school to a non district school. 

22 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Kentucky has revised KRS 156.070 which is the statute that establishes the general powers and duties of the Board Of Education in relation to their management and control of interscholastic sports in the state.

The newly added text:

KRS 156.070 (2)(h)

Any student who transfers enrollment from a district of residence to a nonresident district under KRS 157.350(4)(b) shall be ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics for one (1) calendar year from the date of the transfer.

Digging in a little deeper to see what is happening. If we review KRS 157.350(4)(a) and (b), there is a change in non-resident pupil policy happening July 1, 2022. I am not sure the significance of the change from current law other than it appears schools need to create new agreements with other districts. Reading the statutes above along with KRS 158.120, the changes pertain primarily to how public funding of schools is done, what students can be counted by a school and who pays those costs. 

As far as sports go and transfers, the key thing here is this is a statute that the KHSAA will have to operate under in its bylaws. Its bylaws, in particular Bylaw 6, are where the current transfer rules are. That bylaw is going to need to be changed to comply with this statute. Bottom line as I see it, the statute is very direct. It does not allow exceptions, which is where the current bylaw and its exceptions have opened the door for the confusion and mystery we currently have around transfers. I believe we are going to need to wait for the KHSAA to update its Bylaw 6, to comply with this new statute before we know the impact.

What I foresee as the new reality for transfers under this new statute:

1. There is currently no such thing as a "transfer" before 9th grade. I repeat, currently students who change schools in grades K-8 currently are not transfers for sports purposes. You don't fall under KHSAA sports transfer rules until you have reached 9th grade. The new statute and the other related statutes cited above make no distinction by grade. I think under this new statute, any student regardless of grade, will have to sit out sports for year if they transfer to a different school, with one exception.
2. The only exception under this new statute is change of residence. Technically, not an exception. It is the definition of resident and non-resident. If a student moves to a new district, they become a resident of the new district. As a resident of the new district, non-resident restrictions do not apply.

We will have to wait and see how the KHSAA applies this statute to their bylaws, but there isn't room for interpretation as I see it. 

 

46 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Digging in a little deeper to see what is happening. If we review KRS 157.350(4)(a) and (b), there is a change in non-resident pupil policy happening July 1, 2022. I am not sure the significance of the change from current law other than it appears schools need to create new agreements with other districts. Reading the statutes above along with KRS 158.120, the changes pertain primarily to how public funding of schools is done, what students can be counted by a school and who pays those costs. 

As far as sports go and transfers, the key thing here is this is a statute that the KHSAA will have to operate under in its bylaws. Its bylaws, in particular Bylaw 6, are where the current transfer rules are. That bylaw is going to need to be changed to comply with this statute. Bottom line as I see it, the statute is very direct. It does not allow exceptions, which is where the current bylaw and its exceptions have opened the door for the confusion and mystery we currently have around transfers. I believe we are going to need to wait for the KHSAA to update its Bylaw 6, to comply with this new statute before we know the impact.

What I foresee as the new reality for transfers under this new statute:

1. There is currently no such thing as a "transfer" before 9th grade. I repeat, currently students who change schools in grades K-8 currently are not transfers for sports purposes. You don't fall under KHSAA sports transfer rules until you have reached 9th grade. The new statute and the other related statutes cited above make no distinction by grade. I think under this new statute, any student regardless of grade, will have to sit out sports for year if they transfer to a different school, with one exception.
2. The only exception under this new statute is change of residence. Technically, not an exception. It is the definition of resident and non-resident. If a student moves to a new district, they become a resident of the new district. As a resident of the new district, non-resident restrictions do not apply.

We will have to wait and see how the KHSAA applies this statute to their bylaws, but there isn't room for interpretation as I see it. 

 

Would you please expand on the bold as it relates to 9th grade and up and then again for K-8?