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