Several incidents, complaints, and misunderstandings involving students in our Charter schools in the past few months require that we re-state our policies concerning membership and certifications.

These policies concern students and Instructors of Charter schools of the ITA & ICHF and have not changed for the past 20 YEARS!!!

*  Every student of an ITA or ICHF Charter school MUST be an Individual Member of the ITA or ICHF.  If you are not a Member you cannot receive Rank Certificates.

*  Every student MUST receive a TaeKwonDo or Combat Hapkido Certificate issued by the ITA or ICHF HQ EVERY time he/she is promoted to a higher belt.  If a student does not receive a certificate or the certificate was not issued by the ITA or ICHF HQ, his/her promotion is neither legitimate nor valid, and thereby not recognized by our Governing Bodies.  Application for Black Belt Certification will be denied unless HQ has a record of every color belt certificate having been issued to that student.

*  The ITA & ICHF do not impose heavy or unreasonable mandates on their Charter schools.  There are basically only two strict administrative rules: every student must be a Member and every student must receive HQ issued Belt Certificates.  If those two rules are not followed, the Charter school is in violation of our policies and therefore both, the organization (ITA and/or ICHF) and the student, are being cheated.  We cannot make this issue any clearer and there are no exceptions to these rules!!

We urge all of our members to be ethical and do the right thing!