Co-curricular Guidelines

Administrative Policy:

1. Days per week: Co-curricular activities are to be a maximum of 5 days per week for a given activity. This includes practices and performances. If a coach believes 6 days are necessary, the coach must make a request to the AC/FAC.
2. Selection process:
   1. Coaches/directors will meet with the AD or FAC to talk about tryouts, concerns, and selection lists.
   2. The AD or FAC (and if appropriate, the coach or director) will talk with the principal about concerns and selection lists.
   3. Coaches/directors will post selection lists.
3. Removal from a co-curricular activity: Removal of a student from a co-curricular activity is the province of the principal.
4. Managers/Assistants:
   1. Coaches/directors are to select student assistants after cuts have been made using the following criteria:
      • Students must be in the same school division as students in the activity.
      • For single-sex activities, students who are the same gender as students in the activity receive priority.
      • If a coach is of the opposite gender of the team, the student assistant must be the same gender as the team.
   2. Each activity or team may have a maximum of 1 official student assistant, who is eligible to be absent from school for the activity. Additional assistants are permitted but are ineligible to be absent from school for the activity.
   3. Selections for all student assistants will be reviewed by the FAC/AD and divisional principal.
   4. Student assistants are full participants in the activity and are subject to the responsibilities outlined below.
5. Tournaments:
   1. Students: Players have the option to fill out the list before a manager. One manager is eligible to attend.
   2. Sponsor selection priority:
      1. FAC/AC or JV or MS coach
      2. In a cross-gender situation, the spouse may go
      3. Parents - of oldest students first

Student guidelines:

Students must:

1. Maintain their commitment to an activity until it is completed. Students who choose not to attend all practices and events, choose the following consequences (all exceptions must be made on appeal to the coach, the AD/FAC, and the division principal):
   1. Sports:
      1. Students who quit tennis, VB, BB, FH, or soccer after teams have been announced will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
      2. Students who quit CC, wrestling, or track during or after the first meet will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
   2. Fine arts:
      1. Students who quit drama after the cast has been announced will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
      2. Students who are in speech, solo & ensemble (instrumental, vocal), and artscape who do not participate in the culminating event will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
   3. Student Council: Students elected to student council who do not complete their term in office will be ineligible for further participation in student council for the following year.
2. Be responsible for their academic assignments and for their co-curricular attendance and may not miss a practice or an event in order to do homework.
3. Be responsible to follow the behavior guidelines in the Student Handbook. Students who get into serious trouble may received serious consequences which affect their co-curricular involvement. For example, students who receive an in-house suspension are ineligible for co-curricular participation on the day the principal deals with the situation, and this ineligibility will be equated with truancy.
4. Attend all gatherings related to the co-curricular activities to which they have committed themselves. Students who choose not to attend all practices and events choose the following consequences:
   1. Sports:
      1. Students who are truant from practice are ineligible to participate in the next contest. The coach will contact the student, parent, and AD when this happens.
      2. Students who are truant from 3 practices are ineligible for further participation. The coach and AD will confer with the principal when this happens. The principal will make the final decision and inform the parents. Students who are removed from a team for truancy will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
   2. Fine arts:
      1. For the first instance of truancy, the coach will talk to the student, parents, and FAC.
      2. For the second instance of truancy, the coach will inform the FAC and principal, who will determine if the student may continue in an activity. The principal will contact the parents.
      3. Students who are truant from 3 practices are ineligible for further participation. The coach and FAC will confer with the principal when this happens. The principal will make the final decision and inform the parents. Students who are removed from a team for truancy will be ineligible for athletic and fine arts activities for the current season and the next season.
   3. Student Council:
      1. For the first instance of truancy, the student council advisor will talk to the student, parents, and FAC.
      2. For the second instance of truancy, the student council advisor will inform the principal, who will determine if the student may continue in an activity. The principal will contact the parents.
      3. Students who are truant from 3 student council meetings and/or events are ineligible for further participation. The student council advisor will confer with the principal when this happens. The principal will make the final decision and inform the parents. Students who are removed from student council for truancy will be ineligible for student council for the following year.
         

Board Policy: B.2.4.1.8