The Activity Arc: a focus on increasing students' confidence, interpersonal skills, and leadership qualities by participating in at least two school-sponsored activities per year (sports, clubs, etc.).
Wrestling and rugby are also offered to students; however, they are not school-sponsored activities.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 today that public school officials have broad power to censor school newspapers, plays and other "school-sponsored expressive activities."
Since the 1990s, controversy in the courts has tended to revolve around prayer at school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
Schools must provide students with disabilities appropriate access to school-sponsored extracurricular activities such as playing on sports teams.
Based on these facts, he concludes, his case "does not present the issue of school authority over student expressions on campus or in a school-sponsored activity".
Participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities is a privilege.
Its majority opinion set a precedent that school-sponsored activities, including student newspapers and drama productions are not normally protected from administrative by the First Amendment.
Other rulings have forbidden public, organized prayer at school assemblies, sporting events, and similar school-sponsored activities.
When it comes to school-sponsored activities, the importance of preventing sports-related illness or injury should be paramount.