What public school activities should a cyber school student be permitted to participate in?
A Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School student who lives north of Philadelphia is attending Neshaminy High School next year. He's attend schools in the Neshaminy District in the past and wants to go to the year-end eighth-grade dance. However, the school says no. Administrators say dances are social activities for current students. They argue that law allows home-schooled and cyber-school students to participate in public school academic and co-curricular exercises, such as sports and music, but not social activites, such as dances.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Labels: Cyber school students
posted by Dawn Keller at
3:36 PM
3 Comments:
i would think if they can participate in the sports and music programs, they should be able to attend the social activities as well. at the same time, i do believe if there were fundraisers involved, or a fee for the social event, the cyber kids should participate as well.
Pa. Act 22 says that students attending a charter school or cyber charter school may participate in an extracurricular activity in their home district if their charter school does not offer that activity.
The problem here is that the Pa. Dept. of Education allows school districts to define what is and what is not an extracurricular activity. The dance is a school activity on school property, organized by the school and its staff. That should qualify it as "extracurricular."
Unless there is a physical reason the student has to be cyber schooled, rather than the parent just not liking the district, they should NOT be permitted to participate in ANY district activities...sports, dances, music, etc. If there is a concern that they cannot socialize with the other kids on a daily basis, why should there be an exception for non-academic activities?
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