2009 Annual Questionnaire Results

2009 Annual Questionnaire Results

 

        The MSHSAA Board of Directors circulates the Annual Questionnaire each year to all member schools. This instrument is utilized to obtain a consensus from member schools on key issues which will aid the Board of Directors in determining changes that are desired by the majority of member schools.  Listed below are the results of this year's Annual Questionnaire.

 

  1.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Does your school currently participate interscholastically in any of the following activities?

        a.     Bowling               YES - 14   NO -  310

        b.     Chess                   YES - 26   NO -  298

        c.     Cycling/Biking    YES - 0     NO -  322

        d.     Fishing                 YES - 2     NO -  320

        e.     Ice Hockey          YES - 20   NO -  303

        f.      Rodeo                   YES - 1    NO -  321

 

        If the listed activity were to become an INTERSCHOLASTIC activity under the jurisdiction of MSHSAA (through a vote of the membership), WOULD YOUR SCHOOL PLAN TO REGISTER AND PARTICIPATE interscholastically in this activity? 

        g.     Bowling               YES -  48   NO -  266

        h.     Chess                  YES - 69    NO -  244

        i.      Cycling/Biking    YES - 15    NO -  294

        j.      Fishing                YES - 36    NO -  281

        k.     Ice Hockey          YES - 17    NO -  294

        l.      Rodeo                  YES - 10    NO -  298

 

  2.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered in Boys or Girls Volleyball:

        a.     Is your volleyball team (girls or boys) planning to play any three-out-of-five game matches during the 2009-10 school year?

        YES - 33    NO - 181

 

        b.     Would you favor utilizing the national high school volleyball match format of three-out-of-five games at the varsity level statewide during the regular season and for the MSHSAA Girls Volleyball District and State Series?

        YES - 41    NO - 172

 

  3.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered in Boys or Girls Track and Field:

        Would you favor conducting the 800 meter run at the state championships as two preliminary heats on Friday with a final race of eight runners on Saturday beginning with the 2010 season?

        YES - 175    NO - 66

 

  4.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered in Boys Baseball:

        a.     Would you favor such an adjustment in the state baseball tournament format?

        YES - 89    NO - 142

 

        b.     If such an adjustment is made on a trial basis, based on membership support, which type of trial would you prefer? (Vote for only one)

                1)     A trial in Class 4 only to monitor costs, travel, loss of school time, etc. prior to expanding to all classes.

        YES - 119

                2)     The trial should include all classes.

        YES - 77

 

  5.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered in Boys or Girls Golf:

        a.     Would you favor the described reduction in State Golf Qualifiers: 

        YES - 103    NO - 90

 

        b.     Would you favor the entry method of “play four and count four” and take the top 8 individuals from each District  to the State Tournaments?    

        YES - 70    NO - 116

 

        c.     Would you favor the entry method of “play five and count four” and take the top 7 individuals from each District to the State Tournaments?   

        YES - 75    NO - 109

 

  6.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Should the definition of a school be expanded to allow an association of home schools to become an affiliate registered member?

        YES - 52    NO - 261

 

  7.   Voted on by all member junior high schoos:

        a.     Would you support amending the MSHSAA Constitution to allow for Affiliate Registered Schools at the junior high school level?

        YES - 119    NO - 71

 

        b.     Would you support a 2009 Ballot item being presented as a one-year trial, to allow the membership to finalize both the high school category and the junior high school category on the 2010 Annual Ballot?

        YES - 123    NO - 66

 

  8.   Voted on by all member junior high schools:

        Should a Junior High School be allowed to cooperatively sponsor sports and activities with two or more neighboring junior high schools, as long as the cooperative sponsorship meets the requirements set forth in By-Law 107?

        YES - 134    NO - 56

 

  9.   Voted on by all member schools:

        a.     Would you favor the removal of the words “minor” and “accident” from the wording describing “moving traffic offenses” that are held to the provisions of the Citizenship Standard?

        YES - 310    NO - 14

 

        b.     Would you favor the addition of the words “to others” in regard to traffic offenses that cause injuries, thereby excluding from by-law coverage those traffic offenses that do not include drugs or alcohol, and where only the student in question is injured?

        YES - 282    NO - 44

 

10.   Voted on by all member schools:

        a.     Should internet classes through virtual schools offered by and at the member school and which are completed no later than the close of the semester be allowed to count towards academic eligibility?

        YES - 215    NO - 107

 

        b.     Would you favor allowing credits that are pre-arranged and pre-approved to be accepted by a member school and which will be placed on a student’s transcript toward graduation and are completed no later than the close of the semester tocount toward academic eligibility for activities? 

        YES - 215    NO - 105

 

        c.     Should additional study be done to determine what types of courses/classes/credits should be acceptable for counting toward academic eligibility, in order to be consistent throughout the state?

        YES - 296    NO - 30

 

11.   Voted on by all member schools:

        If a student is taking additional classes beyond a normal load at school (correspondence course(s), virtual course(s), credit recovery course(s), etc.) as described above, how should the calculation of whether or not the student has passed 80% be made? (Vote for only one)

        a.     All classes being attempted should be taken into consideration, and the student should be required to pass 80% of the TOTAL credits attempted.

        YES - 120

 

        b.     The student should be required to pass 80% of the classes being taken during the normal school day and the “extra”  classes should be excluded from all consideration (i.e. credits achieved in the “extra classes” should not be considered either for or against academic eligibility.)

      YES - 192

 

12.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Would you favor increasing the amount of credit (from one unit to two units) that can be counted toward academic eligibility from dual enrollment in college classes being taken off campus with credit being placed on the high school transcript?

        YES - 257    NO - 61

 

13.   Voted on by all member junior high schools:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 213-c-1, 213-d, and 213-d-4 (as shown above), to increase the academic requirements for students in grades 7 and 8, beginning with the 2009-10 school year?

        YES - 145    NO - 46

 

14.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 235.2-c (as shown above) to establish criteria that would allow a school coach to coach non-school teams based upon the membership level he/she is assigned to coach beginning with the 2009-10 school year?

        YES - 237    NO - 85

 

15.   Voted on by all member schools:

        a.     Would you favor a merger of By-Laws 235 and 241 and policies governing Non-School Competition, Camps and Clinics, Open Facilities, and Out-of-Season Conditioning Programs in an attempt to simplify governance and oversight by creating “open periods/dead periods” and “contact and non-contact periods” outside of the school sport seasons?

        YES - 251    NO - 72

 

        b.     Would you favor the concept of a Summertime Dead Period as described in the background material above?

        YES - 229    NO - 95

 

        c.     If a Summertime Dead Period is implemented based on support by the membership, which of the following would you      prefer? (Vote for only one)

                1)     A standard statewide dead period that takes place during a pre-set period of nine consecutive

                        days, or

        YES - 168

                2)     A dead period of nine consecutive days to be set individually by each member school, to be

                        reported to MSHSAA and posted on the MSHSAA website.

        YES - 150

 

        d.     Would you favor the concept of an allowable number of Summer Contact Days, as described in the background material above, as a replacement for the current by-laws which restrict activities differently based on their “type” (i.e. camps, competition, open facility, etc.)?

        YES - 203    NO - 99

 

        e.     In regard to the specific number of allowable Contact Days during the summer, as described in the background material above, which statement below best describes your school’s position? (Vote for only one)

                1)     25 days would be an appropriate number of Summer Contact Days

        YES - 158

                2)     Coaches should have more than 25 Summer Contact Days

        YES - 114

                3)     Coaches should have fewer than 25 Summer Contact Days

        YES - 30

 

16.   Voted on by all member schools:

        a.     Would you favor limiting the ineligibility status currently prescribed by this section of the by-law to only those sports in

                which that coach coaches, rather than ineligibility for all sports?

        YES - 168    NO - 140

 

        b.     Would you favor removing the section of the Foreign Student by-law that indicates a student becomes ineligible for

                athletics if he/she is residing with a school coach?

        YES - 76    NO 233

 

17.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Would you favor merging By-Law 236, Foreign Student Eligibility, and By-Law 238, Residency and Transfer Requirements,

        in order to treat all students similarly in regard to transfer eligibility?

        YES - 254    NO - 68

 

18.   Voted on by all member schools:

        Would you support amending the wording of the Residency Standards in By-Law 238 to include Charter Schools asoutlined above?

        YES - 254    NO - 65

 

19.   Voted on by all member schools which are registered in Academic Competition:

        Should non-school competition (participating in open events or against collegiate competitors) in Academic Competition (Quiz Bowl) be restricted during the interscholastic season?

        YES - 73    NO - 161

 

20.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered in Boys or Girls Basketball:

        Would you favor an amendment to By-Law 312 in order to allow for an expansion from five classes to six classes in boys and girls basketball?

        YES - 161    NO - 124

 

21.   Voted on by all member senior high schools that are registered in Cross Country, Field Hockey, Boys Soccer, Boys Swimming or Girls Volleyball:

        Would you favor amending By-Laws 322.0 (Fall Sports Season) and 327.0-a-1 (Boys Swimming Sports Season) to change the first possible contest date for cross country, field hockey, boys soccer, boys swimming, and girls volleyball to the Friday of Week Number Eight of the Standardized Calendar?

        YES - 197    NO - 44

 

22.   Voted on by all member senior high schools that are registerd in Baseball, Boys Tennis, Girls Soccer, Boys Golf, Girls LaCrosse, Softball, Track or Boys Volleyball:

        Would you favor amending By-Laws 325.0 (Spring Sports Season) and to change the first possible contest date for Baseball, Boys Golf, Girls Lacrosse, Softball, Girls Soccer, Boys Tennis, Track, and Boys Volleyball to the Friday of number thirty-seven of the Standardized Calendar?

        YES - 196    NO - 65

 

23.   Voted on by all member senior high schools which are registered for Boys or Girls Tennis:

        Would you support a reduction in the match limits for boys and girls tennis in order to allow for an expansion of the Team Tennis state play-off system, as described above?

        YES - 77    NO - 32

 

24.   Voted on by all member junior high schools which are registered for at least one sport:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 331 (as shown above) to establish a first allowable practice date for seventh and eighth grade teams which is based on the Standardized Calendar, and which would be one week later than the first allowable practice date for the high school level?

        YES - 167    NO - 78

 

25.   Voted on by all member junior high schools:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 331 (as shown above) to allow junior high schools to participate in two twelve week seasons of softball and baseball?

        YES - 87    NO - 87

 

26.   Voted on by all member schools registerd in Speech or Academic Competition:

        Would you support the wording change listed above in order to allow all Missouri students equal access to allowable interscholastic events held on Memorial Day Weekend (or later in the summer) if they have met the requirements of the applicable by-laws?

        YES - 209    NO - 41

 

27.   Voted on by all member senior high schools that are registerd in Speech, Debate, and Drama:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 540.0 (Season Limits) to permit schools to participate in one interscholastic speech, debate, and/or drama event in addition to the MSHSAA state tournament between April 1 and the beginning of summer, as shown above?

        YES - 119    NO - 25

 

28.   Voted on by all member senior high schools that are registered in Academic Competition:

        Would you favor amending MSHSAA By-Law 640.0 (Season Limits) to permit schools to participate in one interscholastic academic competition event in addition to the MSHSAA state tournament between the District Tournament and the beginning of summer, as shown above?

        YES - 167    NO - 51