IGDA: Student Organizations

IGDA-AR: Student Organizations

Code: IGDA

Adopted: 1/04/07

Revised/Readopted: 4/13/11; 10/11/17 Orig. Code(s): IGDA

The district encourages curriculum-related student organizations.  District staff will facilitate such organizations and district resources may be used to support them.  The district may also support student organizations which are not directly curriculum-related.

The principal will develop general guidelines for student organizations.  Among other provisions, such guidelines will require the assignment of at least one staff advisor to each student organization.  Such advisory assignment will be on a voluntary basis.

Voluntary student-organized clubs which are not curriculum-related may meet on school premises during noninstructional time. 

If the content of a club’s meetings is religious in nature, school staff may attend only in a supervisory non-participatory manner.  Staff may be assigned to attend such meetings for custodial purposes only, but will not be compelled to attend a meeting if the content of the speech at the meeting is contrary to that person’s beliefs. 

END OF POLICY

Legal Reference(s):

ORS 339.880

ORS 339.885

OAR 581-021-0050

OAR 581-021-0055

Equal Access Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 4071-4074 (2006).

Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches Unified Sch. Dist., 508 U.S. 384 (1993).

Westside Cmty. Bd. of Educ. v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 226 (1990).

Cross Reference(s):

IB - Freedom of Expression

JFI - Student Demonstrations and Petitions