By james art 
During the virtual zone meetings last week and on Wednesday, the first day of the LHSAA Directors Convention, the organization’s stakeholders played it near the vest. The chief principals of the school asked several questions.
When it was time to vote, the school executives made some bold statements – albeit through electronic voting devices during a meeting held at Crown Plaza in Baton Rouge. The directors rejected the proposal to allow students/athletes a one-time transfer for a margin competition with margin 273-66.
Later, directors approved two by -laws to strengthen the LHSAA position before court cases. The meeting continued less than 40 minutes.
“We have meetings in the area in advance, but you never know how to enter (what will happen),” said LHSAA CEO Eddie Bonin. “We had almost 350 people here from 404 (school) membership.
“(The transfer rule) depends on who you were talking to and when you were talking to them. Now we have information about what we have offered. And if he reappears, he reappears.
“There was no pressure on the association of external entities to do this. This is not a mimic about what happened in UIL in Texas. It was a process for us to have something in our place.”
The one -time transfer rule was on the agenda of the Convention in 2024, but was withdrawn before voting. One -time transfer critics release it as a way of chosen schools to gain an advantage over LHSAA schools. They also claim that this would do sports athletics at College College in high school.
However, adding more school choices across the country complicates things. The Louisiana legislation plan for reviving a school vouchers program to allow more opportunities to choose students in public schools is a hot button.
The current LHSAA by -laws allow admissibility for junior variants in just one year if the student violates his admissibility chain by transferring to another school.
Gordon Ford of Grbling Lincoln Repara in the benefit of disposable transfers. Robert Wales and Vermillion Catholic Stella Arabian is arguing against this.
“If we approve of this, the next thing we will vote on is a transfer portal,” Wales said. Arabs said a one -time transfer was: “It’s not good for all schools.”
LHSAA has been tried by Member States three times since the beginning of the school year 2023-24. Two of the three court cases were brought outside the 19th court court of Baton Rouge.
The first legal change in the legitimate law, which passed 202-180, requires all legal issues against LHSAA-incorporating temporary restrictive orders, damage and declarational relief-transfers through the 19th district where LHSAA is located.
After that, a second change of the by-law, which went from a thinner 180-159 margin, is two-time. It does not allow the schools to be included in the playoffs in the sport in which the case was filed.
The change of the by -law also enables the Executive Director and the LHSAA Executive Committee to cancel the school membership within two years, so as not to comply with the rules, including criminal decisions.
Bonin said the second proposal stems from complaints from a school for schools for schools held on the bracket after receiving a restrictive order that violates plans for playoffs.
“Every time the courts are involved and they put a restrictive order, the schools were allowed to participate (in playoffs),” Bonin said. “This (approved by law) cleans this. This was the advice we were given for it. “