Effective with the 2009-10 school year, the minimum academic standard for student athlete eligibility changes to "66% of credit load potential for a full time student" and the period of ineligibility following an academic deficiency at the end of a term is " 60 scheduled school days."
The prior rule for student athlete eligibility stated that student athletes must be passing a required 20 credit hours (four courses). The new minimum state standard means that student athletes who pass four of seven courses will no longer meet the new minimum state standard. Our student athletes will now need to pass five out of seven courses to maintain their athletic eligibility. In addition, the old rule stated that the period of ineligibility for student athletes displaying an academic deficiency was the following semester. As I said earlier, the new period of ineligibility will be 60 scheduled school days.
One important note: Student athletes who achieve credit for 20 credit hours but not 66% of a full course load during their last academic term of 2008-09 will remain eligible at the start of the 2009-10 school year only.
We pride ourselves at Grosse Pointe South High School by continuing to have high standards and expectations when it comes to academics. From our perspective, we expect all of our student athletes to pass 100% of their courses.
