If in fact what Time Stands Still states is true, a case against St. Thomas Aquinas would easily be proved. Copied below is the KSHSAA rule regarding such behavior, and insofar as no penalty has been assessed St. Thomas Aquinas, I must conclude this is another instance where Time Stands Still is simply speaking of matters he knows little or nothing about.

If this has been an irritant for Johnson County coaches, I find it difficult to believe no one has contacted KSHSAA regarding these alleged transgressions.

Rule 19
UNDUE INFLUENCE
To maintain a proper relationship between the academic purposes of schools and their activities programs, all members of the Kansas 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 or transfer to a school primarily for activity purposes.

Section 1: General Regulations (apply to grades 7-12)
Art. 1: The enrollment in a school, the transfer from one school to another, or the failure to transfer from one school to another because of undue influence by anyone connected, directly or indirectly (including alumni associations, booster groups and similar organizations) with a member school, shall cause the student to forfeit eligibility for a period not to exceed 365 days. Such conduct shall also jeopardize the school’s standing in the Association and shall result in such other action as the Executive Board deems appropriate.

Art. 2: 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 activities, include:
a. The offer or acceptance of money, room, board, clothing or other valuable considerations to a student, or a student’s parent or guardian, including:
(1) transportation to school by any school official;
(2) provision for free or reduced rent for a parent or guardian:
(3) offer or payment of the moving expenses of a parent or guardian.
b. Waiving or reducing tuition for any student to be certified as eligible for activities, without establishing and following a plan submitted by the school and approved by the KSHSAA Executive Board which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) statement of philosophy and policy concerning the reduction or waiver of tuition;
(2) procedures used to determine the qualifications for tuition waiver or reduction; and
(3) description of how the waiving or reducing of tuition is equally available and applied to students in similar circumstances.
c. The payment of tuition by someone other than a student’s immediate family or a financial aid program not approved by the Executive Board.
d. The offer or acceptance of remuneration for work in excess of the amount regularly paid for such service.
e. The offer or acceptance of school privileges or considerations not normally granted to other students.
f. Any inducement to get parent, guardian or student to change residence for activity purposes.
g. The contacting of a student(s) in another school by any person connected, directly or indirectly, with a member school (including alumni associations, booster groups or similar organizations), and attempting to persuade or induce that student(s), primarily for activity purposes, to attend the inducer’s school.
h. The attempt by any person connected, directly or indirectly, with a member school (including alumni associations, booster groups or similar organizations) to persuade or induce a student, primarily for activity purposes, to remain a student in the inducer’s school, when a bona fide change of residence has occurred.