Off-Campus Physical Education (OCPE)
To maintain compliance with the Texas Education Code, Splendora ISD offers students a waiver process for OCPE programs. This waiver process consists of Category 1 (15 hours) and Category 2 (five hours) for students in high school or middle school.
Requests for waivers for approval of private or commercially sponsored physical activity programs will be considered in two categories. These are:
CATEGORY 1 - OLYMPIC TRAINING: is available to Middle School and High School students.
(Waiver requests considered under this category must be approved by the local Board and submitted to the Texas Education Agency for final approval.)
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Private or commercially sponsored physical activity programs that lead to Olympic-level participation and/or competition. These programs typically involve a minimum of 15 hours per week of highly intense, professionally supervised training. The training facility, instructors, and the activities involved in the program must be certified by the Superintendent or his/her designee to be of exceptional quality.
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Students qualifying and participating at this level may be dismissed from school one period per day for such participation. Students dismissed must not be permitted to miss any academic class to fill out a regular day in lieu of leaving campus for OCPE.
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The OCPE students should leave the campus one period prior to the end of the day or not check in to school until the second period of the day. There will be no supervised areas for these students to stay on campus for the unassigned class period and will result in immediate dismissal of the OCPE Program. Students who discontinue OCPE Category 1 during a semester will be enrolled in a regular physical education class for the remainder of the semester to complete the credit in physical education for that semester.
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It is anticipated that only a very limited number of students will qualify for this exceptional level of participation.
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The credits being earned for graduation requirements are to be taken during the students’ high school enrollment period.
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Students participating at this level may receive a maximum of one-half credit per semester. A total of one credit may be earned toward state high school graduation requirements or four semesters for middle school PE requirements.
CATEGORY 2: is available to Middle School and High School students.
(Waivers in Category 2 must be approved by the local Board but do not require submission of approval of the Texas Education Agency.)
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Private or commercially sponsored physical activity programs as certified by the Superintendent or his/her designee to be of high quality, well supervised by appropriately trained instructors, and consisting of a minimum of five hours per school week.
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Students participating at this level may receive a maximum of one-half credit per semester. A total of one credit may be earned toward state high school graduation requirements or four semesters for middle school PE requirements.
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Students certified to participate at this level may not be dismissed from any part of the regular school day.
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The credits being earned for graduation requirements are to be taken during the students’ high school enrollment period.
Click the links below to download the forms. Only email submission of required forms (Parent Permission Form and the OCPE Waiver Application) will be accepted for review by the Splendora ISD Athletic Director, Deana Eubanks, deubanks@splendoraisd.org.