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PE Waiver request forms are available at CCISD intermediate and
elementary schools. Ask your counselor for these forms. We also
have a blank form here for use by
those who will be requesting a PE waiver for next school year (for
CCISD schools).
For those new to the process, a PE waiver is a procedure whereby an
athlete’s documented participation in an organized athletic
activity outside of school — such as our AQUASTAR club
swimming — allows the student to skip PE classes at school
and have a study hall period instead. Each school year
requires a PE waiver request application.
The key word is "documented participation." Here is the procedure
that must be followed:
1. Obtain the PE waiver application form from your school, or this
download
(CCISD).
2. Complete the form and give to an AQUASTAR parent-on-deck
at the pool, to give to Coach Harold. He will then verify your
eligibility and sign the application form, and return it to
you, along with a "program description" that tells the CCISD
what your athlete does in practice. Note the waiver requires at
least 5 hours/week of practice in weeks where CCISD is in
session.
3. Forward the completed signed form, and program
description write-up from Coach Harold, to the main CCISD
athletic office. You may mail it to the League City address on the
form, or fax to the district athletic office at
281-284-9907. You may then want to confirm with
your campus counselor that they have received the information from
the district at some time later, when the next semester schedules
are being generated.
4. Once the semester starts — i.e., the first day of school
in August or January — PARENTS MUST TRACK THE
ATHLETE’S DAILY ATTENDANCE AT AQUASTAR PRACTICE. Many
use a small wall calendar like those given away at
Walgreen’s, etc., and write in each daily block the location
and hours practiced for each day of the month when the athlete
attended practice. Others track via a written daily log. But the
key is to track every day in a way that Coach Harold can
verify against our own daily attendance-tracking.
Here also is a calendar to download for your
use.
5. Turn in your attendance tracking into Coach Harold the
second-to-last week before the end of each 9-week grading
period. He must have time to verify and then get the information to
the schools. He will assign a numerical grade for the
student’s report card. MAKE SURE COACH HAROLD KNOWS THE
COUNSELOR WHO SHOULD RECEIVE THE INFORMATION, AND FAX NUMBER OF
YOUR SCHOOL. Space Center Intermediate can supply a form to be
filled in, and with the fax number on it (281-284-3305), for
example. Here is the form for Space Center. The
dates the grades from Coach Harold are due to the counselor at
Space Center are the FRIDAY BEFORE the last week of the 9- week
grading period.
NOTE: In addition to practice attendance requirements, 10% of the
PE waiver grade reported by AQUASTAR is predicated on whether the
athlete attended a meet during the 9-week grading period or not.
Meet attendance earns the full 10%; no meet attendance earns a 0%
for that portion of the PE waiver grade (meaning that not attending
a meet during the 9-week period, but successfully meeting the
practice attendance requirements, would earn an overall grade of
90).
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