IGDJ: Interscholastic Activities

Code: IGDJ

Adopted: 6/11/18

The Board recognizes the integral role interscholastic activities play in the character development and general enhancement of the education of its students.  Accordingly, administrators, coaches, student participants and others associated with the district’s high school activities programs and events^[1] shall conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with the letter and spirit of policies, rules and regulations of the district and of the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) and the fundamental values of sportsmanship.  Each will be held accountable for its actions.

The district shall allow homeschooled students and students attending a public charter school to participate in available interscholastic activities in compliance with state law.

The district will provide interscholastic activities for students in compliance with Title IX.

District employees and activity volunteers are prohibited from making contact or otherwise causing contact to be made with a student for purposes of suggesting or encouraging the student and/or family to maintain or change residency for activities eligibility or participation.  The principal, activities director and coaches are each responsible for ensuring student participants meet all district and OSAA eligibility requirements. The principal is responsible for ensuring accurate certification regarding the eligibility of participating students and for verifying that coaches have been certified through the National Federation of High School Coaches Certification program prior to assuming coaching duties.  The principal shall ensure that a program is in place to effectively evaluate the performance of all coaches and activities advisers under his/her supervision.

Volunteers may be approved to assist with district activities with prior approval from the principal. 

The principal shall investigate all allegations of district student ineligibility, staff recruitment violations or other student or staff conduct that may violate Board policies, administrative regulations and/or OSAA rules and regulations.  The principal shall notify the superintendent of conduct that violates the terms of this policy and report to the OSAA as required. 

An employee determined to have violated rules and regulations of the OSAA may be subject to discipline, up to and including, dismissal.  A student in violation of the OSAA rules and regulations will be subject to discipline, up to and including, dismissal from his/her interscholastic activity or program, suspension and/or expulsion from school.  Volunteers shall be subject to discipline up to and including removal from district programs and activities and such other sanctions as may be deemed appropriate by the district.

Employees, volunteers or students in violation of OSAA rules and/or regulations may be required to remunerate the district in the event of fines assessed by OSAA as a result of their actions.

The superintendent will develop procedures, as necessary, to implement this policy, including a process to ensure that all district rules governing the conduct of students, staff and volunteers engaged in district activities are regularly reviewed and updated.

^[1]This applies to only OSAA-sanctioned activities and events.

END OF POLICY

Legal Reference(s):

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1683 (2012); Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance, 34 C.F.R. Part 106 (2017).

OREGON  SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION, OSAA HANDBOOK.

Montgomery v. Bd. of Educ., 188 Or. App. 63 (2003).

Cross Reference(s):

JHCA - Physical Examination for Students Participating in Extracurricular Activities