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Switching At Thomas County Central High School

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I am a volleyball player who was denied eligibility to play varsity volleyball at Thomas County Central High School, because I switched schools sooner than a year ago. I understand that you along with the rest of the GHSA board care about students not taking advantage of switching schools just to be on an eye-catching sports team. As a player, I respect this and thank you for keeping star athletes from taking mine or my team mates’ spots on the team. It is also understandable that you along with other GHSA board members may not think about school systems like ours that continuously have people switching primarily because of the rigor of different school, such as me switching to TCCHS from Thomasville High School Scholars Academy, because I simply could not keep up with the pace and rigor that they teach with. After weighing out both points of view, transfers from any school should be allowed to participate in varsity sports without having to wait a year from the time of transferring to their new school. My thought out solution is to simply allow it, but have those athletes only be able to play half of the season. The 50% that they get to play in the season would be talked out between the coach, athlete, and the parents. Having this rule would be a good compromise between not allowing transfers to play and allowing them. With this rule in place, athletes would be able to get in their time to stand out, but they would not take away a lot of time from players who have

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