I'm not sure if anyone has heard of the somewhat recent news of the lawsuit that the ACLU brought against many California school districts in Southern California. They won, and it was about schools charging students to participate in sports, AP classes other activities. Some schools had been charging students to take AP classes, which if just for the AP test would be fine, but they were charging more. Also if you didn't want to take the test you still had to pay to take the class. I see why that isn't good, but the verdict that was reached by the two parties and the judge, i think went way to far. The ruling was that you can not charge a student to participate in many activities at school. Sports are included, lets say you play football and have 6th period PE for football, "now" a football program can't charge that student because he's playing football during school, 6th period. so the answer might be all athletes will not have 6th period athletic PE and will play all sports after school. So that should take care of the charging a student for a class during school. Well you would think that would take care of it, BUT no it doesn't. The judge says that you still can't charge the student for anything, i.e. spirit pack, mouth piece, etc. As if that wasn't enough, the settlement took on fundraising. Lets say a group wants to fund-raise to go to Washington DC. The students start to raise money and are working hard to make enough money to go. Well about a month before they are ready to go a new student comes and wants to join the group, which is fine, but also wants to go with them to Washington DC, still fine, Oh yeah, the student also doesn't want to fund-raise, they want it paid for by the club! Well the settlement says the club has to pay for them. How absurd is that! Let others do the work and then sit back and be lazy and still get the same trip as others. ABSOLUTELY terrible. How is a school supposed to provide activities and trips and programs for students when 1. the state is cutting their funding, forcing them to raise money and 2. Now groups need be worried about someone coming in and demanding to go without doing any of the work or even paying for it. Here's the biggest kicker of all. If the district, school, club or program is found to have violated this outrageous edict, then they can be fined and lose budget money. MONEY THEY ALREADY HAVE SO LITTLE OF ANYWAYS!
Here's what's happening, programs aren't doing trips, clubs are now not actively trying to go places and all under the stress of possibly canceling trips or clubs as a whole because they can't afford to pay for others to go on the shirt tails of others. JUST SAD!!! Freeman 577
I'm not sure if anyone has heard of the somewhat recent news of the lawsuit that the ACLU brought against many California school districts in Southern California. They won, and it was about schools charging students to participate in sports, AP classes other activities.
ReplyDeleteSome schools had been charging students to take AP classes, which if just for the AP test would be fine, but they were charging more. Also if you didn't want to take the test you still had to pay to take the class. I see why that isn't good, but the verdict that was reached by the two parties and the judge, i think went way to far.
The ruling was that you can not charge a student to participate in many activities at school. Sports are included, lets say you play football and have 6th period PE for football, "now" a football program can't charge that student because he's playing football during school, 6th period. so the answer might be all athletes will not have 6th period athletic PE and will play all sports after school. So that should take care of the charging a student for a class during school. Well you would think that would take care of it, BUT no it doesn't. The judge says that you still can't charge the student for anything, i.e. spirit pack, mouth piece, etc.
As if that wasn't enough, the settlement took on fundraising. Lets say a group wants to fund-raise to go to Washington DC. The students start to raise money and are working hard to make enough money to go. Well about a month before they are ready to go a new student comes and wants to join the group, which is fine, but also wants to go with them to Washington DC, still fine, Oh yeah, the student also doesn't want to fund-raise, they want it paid for by the club! Well the settlement says the club has to pay for them. How absurd is that! Let others do the work and then sit back and be lazy and still get the same trip as others. ABSOLUTELY terrible.
How is a school supposed to provide activities and trips and programs for students when 1. the state is cutting their funding, forcing them to raise money and 2. Now groups need be worried about someone coming in and demanding to go without doing any of the work or even paying for it.
Here's the biggest kicker of all. If the district, school, club or program is found to have violated this outrageous edict, then they can be fined and lose budget money. MONEY THEY ALREADY HAVE SO LITTLE OF ANYWAYS!
Here's what's happening, programs aren't doing trips, clubs are now not actively trying to go places and all under the stress of possibly canceling trips or clubs as a whole because they can't afford to pay for others to go on the shirt tails of others. JUST SAD!!!
Freeman 577