Your Right to Complain

Thanks to the Williams legislation, you have expanded rights to register complaints to your school and district leadership. Your rights prior to Williams centered on your civil rights. Claims of discrimination based on your or your child’s ethnicity, special education status, or English language fluency, for example, were most common. But the Williams legislation now gives you the right to file complaints if you believe any child at a school, not just your own, lacks adequate resources to learn, including the condition of school buildings; whether your child has access to up-to-date textbooks; and if your child is taking a lab science class, has adequate lab equipment for that course. It also includes whether your child has full-time teachers permanently assigned to his classrooms rather than a long-term substitute, and whether those teachers are well prepared and qualified to teach the subjects they’re assigned to.

To read more about the complaint process, you can go to: the ACLU’s Web page about complaints, or the California Department of Education’s Web page. The California Department of Education also offers a brochure, giving parents much more information about what they formally call the Uniform Complaint Procedure.

ATHLETICS

Morningside High School provides opportunities for both boys and girls to compete in interscholastic athletics. Morningside is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section (CIF-SS) and the South Bay Athletic Association.

Sports
Boy’s Basketball Girl’s Basketball
Boy’s Football Boy’s Baseball
Girl’s Baseball, Track, Tennis & Field
Cross Country Swimming
Boy’s Soccer Girls Soccer
Boy’s Volleyball Girl’s Volleyball

Following are the basic eligibility rules for competition:

1. Be less than 19 years of age on September 1 of the current school year.
2. Meet the IUSD/CIF resident requirements.
3. Attend high school not more than eight (8) semesters.
4. Not compete on any outside team in the same sport for the school season of the sport in which you participate. Not have tried out for any professional or college team.
5. Obtain written permission from parent guardian to compete and travel.
6. Pass a physical examination.
7. Show proof of accident insurance.
8. Maintain a 2.0 GP A for the preceding grading period and be making satisfactory progress toward graduation.
9. Maintain passing grades in at least four subject (20 credits)
10. A student may be declared ineligible by administrative action.
11. An athlete must attend all classes the day of the contest in order to participate. The only exception is if the principal excuses the athlete prior to absence.