216.0  UNDUE INFLUENCE

To
maintain a proper relationship between the academic purposes of schools and
their interscholastic activities programs, all members of the Missouri State
High School Activities Association must refrain from recruitment, inducement or
other forms of persuasion and undue influence which would encourage a student
to enroll in a school primarily for interscholastic activities purposes.

a.     The enrollment in a
school or the transfer from one school to another because of undue influence by
any person or group connected, directly or indirectly with a member school
(including but not limited to alumni associations, booster groups and similar
organizations), shall cause the student to forfeit eligibility at the school
concerned for a period not to exceed the remainder of his/her high school
career and not to exceed 365 days at the member school from which the student
transferred from or, for an incoming freshman, the school(s) the student was
eligible to attend under the Promotion Standard in MSHSAA By-Law 238-3-a-2.  Such conduct may require the school
concerned to forfeit participation in the district and state tournament(s) for
the ensuing series competition.
Further, the school’s membership status in the Association shall
be jeopardized and shall result in other such action as the Board of Directors
deems appropriate.

b.     What constitutes undue
influence shall be determined on a case-by-case basis. Undue influence may, if
primarily used to encourage or facilitate participation in interscholastic
activities, include but not be limited to:

1.     The offer or acceptance
of money, room, board, clothing or other valuable considerations to a student,
or a student’s parent or guardian, including but not limited to:

(a)   transportation
to and/or from school by any school official;

(b)   provision
for free or reduced rent for a parent or guardian;

(c)   offer or
payment of the moving expenses of a parent or guardian.

2.     Waiving or reducing
tuition for any student to be certified as eligible for interscholastic
activities, without establishing and following a plan submitted by the school
and approved by the MSHSAA Board of Directors which includes, but is not
limited to, the following:

(a)   statement
of philosophy and policy concerning the reduction or waiver of tuition;

(b)   procedures used to determine the
qualifications for tuition waiver or reduction; and

(c)   description
of how the waiving or reducing of tuition is equally available and applied to
students in similar circumstances.

3.     The payment of tuition
by someone other than a student’s immediate family or a financial aid
program not approved by the Board of Directors.

4.     The offer or acceptance
of remuneration for work in excess of the amount regularly paid for such
service.

5.     The offer or acceptance
of school privileges or considerations not normally granted to other students.

6.     Any inducement to get a
parent, guardian or student to change residence for interscholastic activities
purposes.

7.     The contacting of a
student(s) in another school by any person or group connected, directly or
indirectly, with a member school (including but not limited to alumni
associations, booster groups or similar organizations), and attempting to
persuade or induce that student(s), primarily for interscholastic activities
purposes, to attend the inducer’s school.