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Parent meetings are to be held at the beginning of each season. The following items need to be included in you r pre-season meeting with parents.
- Introduce student activity participants, their parents, coaches, athletic trainers, and sponsors to each other in a relaxed, cooperative atmosphere.
- Provide information about activities, insurance, physicals, district politer program philosophy, etc.
- Provide information on state high school athletic/activity association, school and team rules.
- Provide specific guidelines, rules and consequences of rule violations.
- Provide information concerning practice, game and tournament schedules.
- Warn student activity participants and their parents of the potential for physical injury.
- Look at team strategies.
- Promote importance of ongoing, honest communication.
- Create awareness about tobacco, alcohol and other drug use issues, ethics and sportsmanship and how they relate to sports and other activities.
- Involve parents in tobacco, alcohol and other drug education and prevention efforts.
- Develop a bond of mutual respect, cooperation, support and shared responsibility between student activity participants, their parents and the school
- Involve parents in the development of student performers on and off the playing field.