Does your school charge for extracurriculars?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My county just decided that next year there will be a $50 charge per sport played, and a $25 charge for each other extracurricular activity. The public was not made aware of this until it was approved...I checked the board meeting agenda and there was no mention of it. </p>

<p>Not only does this make it so myself and many other students can no longer afford to do everything they want, it is biased against some schools. The richer schools in my county will have no trouble getting enough people to pay to play sports, but schools like mine will literally struggle to have a football team, let alone field hockey or volleyball. </p>

<p>What do you think about this? Does your school charge for extracurriculars?</p>

2

<p>I’m pretty sure they charge for sports, but not other stuff. I’m not sure if we have fee waivers.</p>

3

<p>Not to join. We have to pay for our own equipment though. Food and transportation is free unless the game/meet is intown.</p>

4

<p>Not to join, but for sports, we have to pay for our own equipment.</p>

<p>Sometimes we have to pay for transport, but that’s only if we can’t find any school bus driver to do it for us.</p>

5

<p>There is a 75 dollar activity fee once per year for an unlimited number of activities.</p>

6

<p>It’s pretty normal for me. It happens everywhere in my country. A lot of them in my school are around $125. (Pretty expensive for something so crap.)</p>

7

<p>It costs $15 to just do an EC in general. Then you need to buy you own uniform/equipment for sports. For theatre, it costs $100 per show plus more for dance shoes and makeup.</p>

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<p>We have a $50 activity fee for sports and major, well-respected EC’s like Debate. Lesser/less-appreciatied clubs like Project X or Academic Superbowl don’t pay this fee, which is nice since I’m in both of those activities.</p>

9

<p>Yup
Ranging anywhere from 10-100 dollars</p>

10

<p>Currently $250 for each season sport, I think.</p>

11

<p>Not in general, but a lot of clubs have charges.</p>

<p>DECA especially love charges for joining, competitions, mandatory T-shirts.</p>

12

<p>We don’t have to pay to join but we have to pay for our own equipment and food when we travel. If it’s an overnight stay, we may have to contribute to a hotel room - it depends on how much our sports bank account has. That’s rare, though.</p>

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<p>The corruptness of my state makes its so you have to pay for equipment (except football), uniforms and an additional $300-$500 depending on the sport. Clubs are free though (but all have to fundraise).</p>

14

<p>ya man. sports are like a 1000 DOLLARS!!!</p>

15

<p>$75 per season. With three kids playing sports, it got pretty expensive!</p>

16

<p>$200 a year for an unlimited number of clubs, but for any club.
Yep, the football players pay the same amount as Spanish club members.
Yep, it’s pretty dumb.</p>

17

<p>Nope. This makes me feel grateful!</p>

18

<p>No, thank goodness. My high school was in a poor and rural area. If they had assigned a few it would have blocked out a huge portion of the student body, no mention of if it is right or not.</p>

<p>Also I find it interesting that a school would charge one flat rate for sports. Are they trying to make us believe that it costs the same to do a sport like football (with uniforms, transportation for a fairly large team and coaching staff, higher costs of liability insurance, etc) and cross country (equipment wise fairly simple, far lower liability related costs). Doesn’t make much sense.</p>

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<p>Probably so the football parents don’t complain</p>