Academic Requirements for Duxbury High School Student-Athletes

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Academic Requirements for Duxbury High School
Student-Athletes
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Athletics Privilege

• Participation in interscholastic sports is a
  privilege. Students wishing to participate must
  be held to a higher set of rules.
• Higher academic standards are just one of the
  rules that student-athletes must comply with in
  order to eligible to participate.

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Academic Eligibility

• Duxbury High School students schedules are 7
  credits per marking period.
• In order to participate in athletics a student
  must receive a passing grade for 6 credits of
  classes per marking period.

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Marking Periods

• Academic eligibility is based off of marking
  periods.
• There are 4 marking periods per school year.
• A student becomes eligible or ineligible to
  participate on the advertised day that report
  cards are published for the entire student body.
• A students eligibility for the fall season is
  based off of the final marking period grades of
  the previous academic year.

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Incomplete Grades

• An incomplete grade is counted as a failing grade
  until the guidance department changes the
  incomplete grade to a passing grade.
• A student may continue to practice, put not
  participate in interscholastic contests, for a
  team while in the process of changing an
  incomplete grade.

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Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic
Association (MIAA)

• The MIAA is the ruling body of high school
  athletics throughout Massachusetts.
• The MIAA provides a state wide minimum for
  athletic eligibility.
• Each member school may choose to enforce stricter
  regulations for academic eligibility as well as
  other rules.
• Member schools throughout the Commonwealth of
  Massachusetts have varied academic eligibility
  rules.
• Duxbury High School chooses a stricter policy on
  academic eligibility for its student-athletes.

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9th Grade Eligibility

• Students entering the 9th grade are given a
  clean start in regards to athletic academic
  eligibility.
• 9th graders first athletic eligibility review
  begins the day they receive their report card for
  the first marking period

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Academics 1 Priority

• Academics are the first priority of all students
  at Duxbury High School.
• Students will always be excused from practices in
  order to receive extra help from their teachers.
• Never hesitate to ask questions.

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READ YOUR HANDBOOK!

• Academics are just one of the plethora of rules
  specifically for student-athletes.
• Students and parents must make sure that they
  have read and understood the student-athlete
  handbook.
• The student-athletic handbook is always available
  online on the main district web page
  www.duxbury.k12.ma.us

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• Questions?