Citizens Against CIF
Citizens Against CIF is a grassroots organization based in San Diego (CA) whose mission is to change the practices of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). The CIFs abuse of power has become increasingly detrimental to high school sports and kids and resulted in a ground-swell effort to change to CIF! Join us in making change happen quickly!
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I would be happy to share my experiences of September 2009 where a private school in the CCS lied and falsified documents to stop my kids from participating in athletics. The CCS commissioner then jumped on the band wagon and became irrational. We had to hire an attorney and go through the appeals process where the AD admitted lying on his written statement and admitted the head coach falsified a document. We won the appeal, but GUESS WHAT? No sanctions against the AD and coach.
Just saw your post. Can you please email, us we have a case similar to yours and the coach also received no sanctions and has remained in his postion where many beleive the coach maybe be continuing problematic behavior. We are interested to know how much you spent on legal in this case see us on CCS Watchdog on WordPress or email us at: CCSWatchdog@gmail.com. So far CCS has denied any cases like yours have ever existed. They do not appear to have large legal bills until the 2010-11 tax year. Much of that may have been realted to a CalPERS audit, but hte legal fees appear to be escalaing lately and we have been flooded with families that have issues similar to yours. CCS often claim legal fees are realted to litigous parents, not to their own improper behavior. We are anxious to know if a conflict of itnerest may also have been present with your case that would have subjected you to unnessary legal expenses. If there are enough of these , it may warrant a class action suit to recover legal fees families incured legal fees to fight for their children’s rights when CCS officials acjust to retain their rights for their children in a clearly biased Section. Do you know where the coach and AD went, could they still be a problem for other athtltes that can’t fight or spend money on lawyers?
We are looking at a case where a coach and school gave false information and an athlete at a new school was kept form competing in Section finals. The coach and school who provided false information were never sanctioned as CIF rules claim they should be, and went on to win the Section Championship the ahttles in question was kept from competing in. May be some bad people playing the rules to their benefit at the expense of teams and athletes doing the right thing! CIF and Sections are not going after schools and athletes equally. We are finding so many huge issues with the Central Coast Section. If there is mismanagment and fraud, may open up class action lawsuits to have all these cases reviewed and decisions overturned!
School being penalized in a manner that hurts everyone… even though the school in question had no idea of the problem… and when found out they alerted CIF.
CIF is not looking out for the best interest of the Kids involved!
http://www.pe.com/sports/high-school/hsg-schools/hsg-headlines/20111024-football-vista-murrieta-forfeits-five-victories.ece
please call Ken at 530-227-5855
CIF Is overcharging schools and districts for membership. In the San Diego Section, Schools are required to pay $1.80 per student enrolled at the school. of these funds, $1.15 goes to the local CIF and $.65 goes to the state CIF what we belief to be legal fees. In the district that I reside approximately 35% of the total student population participates in athletics. That leaves 65% of the student population that receives no benefit for the $1.80 spent on their behalf. This results in the district being overcharge about nearly $30,000.00