The purpose of the rule was originally to prevent schools and coaches from "recruiting" players into the district or high school attendance zone. In the distant past, especially during the Depression Era and post-WWII, it was common for schools to find a job for a star athlete's father so the family could move into the district. Schools in the Oil Patch were notorious for it. The rule was not designed to prevent PARENTS from independently moving into a district to improve the educational opportunities of their children.PartyBear said:
I don't understand the rules. You can live in a school district and not be eligible to play because they think you moved there to play ball for that specific school? So what? So what if you explicitly say it is because you want your kid to learn under their coach?
If you move to the Midway district and explicitly say it is because the kids tend to end up doing well enough academically to go to a nice college and they all get an IPAD while there, you are not ineligible to enroll in classes.
Again we aren't talking about kids who do not live there and are commuted in to the school as I understand it.
There used to be a rule that required every student-athlete to play a year of sub-varsity football (Frosh or JV) in Texas before they were allowed to play on the varsity. The prerequisite was satisfied with the end of the JV or Frosh season, meaning that if the varsity squad qualified for the playoffs, the player could be moved up to the varsity for the remainder of their playoff run.
When I was in junior high, a family moved in down the street from Louisiana. The father worked for Haliburton and was transferred. They had a son who was going into his senior year in high school and was a highly-recruited LB. Because he had never played HS football in Texas, he was required to play his senior season on the JV, even though he had played 3 years of varsity football in LA. Because the varsity team was bad and didn't make the playoffs (only the district champ qualified back then), his senior season ended on the JV. He then went to Mississippi State on scholarship.
This rule must no longer exist since these kids moved from CO and were immediately eligible for varsity football.