TRANSFER STUDENTS BEWARE

In Minnesota there have been issues with students moving around and transferring from school to school. Last year the Minnesota State High School League took action on the transfer rule. The issue came up a few years ago because some parents and school officials thought that students were transferring for the wrong reasons. Now if a student wants to transfer high schools they have to sit out a year in order to play sports.

The reason some people said that students were transferring was because they thought that the students were only transferring because of sports. If they played sports they would leave one program and join another that was better then the school that they were transferring from. Most students want to better them self’s in high school. And if they think that they will excel at another high school than I think transferring would be a last option. I think that if students want to transfer they have to have all of the options explained to them before they go out and transfer. I think that just transferring to another school just because of sports is wrong. I think that high school should be more then just sports. If a student thinks that he or she will be better off at another school educationally than I think that the transfer option should be looked at carefully. I think that transferring for sports should be the last option there is.