STUDENT ACTIVITY PROGRAM
Participation in school activities is a privilege. School activities provide the benefits of promoting additional interests and ability in the students during their school years and for their lifetime.
Students will have an opportunity to participate in a school activity unless the activity is not offered or the student cannot participate for disciplinary reasons. If the activity is an intramural or interscholastic athletic activity, students of the opposite sex will have a comparable opportunity for participation. Comparable opportunity does not guarantee boys and girls will be allowed to play on each other’s teams when there are athletic activities available that will allow both boys and girls to reap the benefits of school activities, which are the promotion of additional interests and abilities in the students.
Student activity events must be approved by the superintendent unless they involve unusual travel expense, in which case the board will take action. The events must not disrupt the education program or other school district operations.
A high school student who participates in school sponsored athletics may participate in a non-school sponsored sport during the same season under the following conditions:
- The non-school sponsored sport is a different sport from the school-sponsored sport in season.
- Such outside participation shall not conflict with the school sponsored athletic activity. Both high school head coaches of the sports involved must agree to the athlete’s participation, ie; during track season both the head track coach and the head basketball coach would have to agree that an athlete’s participation in a non-school sponsored basketball league was not in conflict with the school-sponsored program. In cases where either coach denied participation, a written statement providing the specific reasons for the denial shall be provided to the athlete, the athletic director and to the superintendent.
- An athlete may appeal a coach’s decision by submitting a written request for reconsideration to the athletic director within three (3) days of the denial. Such request will specify the reasons the athlete believes the denial should be reversed. The athletic director and superintendent will review both the rational for the denial and the reasons provided in the athlete’s request for review and shall respond to the athlete in writing within ten (10) days of receiving the request. If needed, the review panel may also interview the parties involved. Should either the athletic director or the superintendent be unavailable to review the request within the stated guidelines, the high school principal, the middle school principal or the elementary principal will serve in their absence, in that order. The panel’s decision is final.
Participation in non-school sponsored sports is not restricted during any season in which an athlete chooses not to participate in a school-sponsored sport, nor during any period in which no school-sponsored sport is in session.
Violation of this policy shall result in the athlete losing eligibility in the in-season sport for the remainder of that season.
It shall be the responsibility of the superintendent to develop administrative regulations for each school activity. These regulations shall include, but not be limited to, when physical examination will be required, how and when parents will be informed about the risk of the activity, academic requirements, and proof of insurance on the student participating in certain activities. Students wanting to participate in school activities must meet the requirements set out by the school district for participation in the activity.
Previously Code No. 503.5
Adopted: November 11, 1985
Reviewed: January 20, 2003
September 2006
December 17, 2012
Revised: December 12, 1998
May 17, 1999