Monday, April 14, 2014

Nebraska School Activities Association defines "Undue Influence"

The NSAA has always had a policy against the use of undue influence by causing a student in one school to transfer to another school or attend a school for activity participation purposes. At last Fridays NSAA Representative Assembly, a proposal was passed that defined what Undue Influence may be. "The use of any of the following inducements may constitute undue influence, resulting in ineligibility of the student for all high school participation as stipulated in current NSAA Bylaw 2.7: A. Participant living with a coach, principal, teacher, or school official without legal guardianship; B. Any inducement to get parents or students to change residence or schools for athletic/non-athletic purposes; C. Offer or acceptance of money; D. Reduction or remission of regular tuition (other than need-based financial aid available to all applicants); E. Offer or acceptance of board, room, or clothing; F. Offer or acceptance of money for work in excess of amount regularly paidK. ; G. Transportation to school by any school official; H. Offer or acceptance of school privileges not normally granted to other students; I. Free or reduced rent for parents; J. Offer of payment of moving expenses for parents; K. Offer or acceptance of employment for the parents in order to entice the family to move to a certain community so as to gain the services of a child in the school's activity program. L. Any attempt by a representative of a school or any individual or group outside the school to recruit a student(s) in order to gain his/her services in the schools activity program.