School Restricted Courses/Activities

Reason for Restricted Courses/Activities:

1. School restricted courses or activities are either high safety risks for our students or high political risks for our school.

2. The “disallowed” courses or activities have been disallowed because our school insurance company will not allow us to offer those to our students.

3. Courses or activities with funding caps are “political” risks. In the past, schools have been “accused of abusing public school funding” by offering some of these courses to their students. We have been able to continue to allow these courses/activities to be taken by our students, as long as they stay under the stated funding cap, and our students have all of the necessary materials available to them in the core subject areas they are taking first.

4. Courses or activities currently restricted to 30% of funding are not typically offered in any public school in California or paid for by the school as a class. We understand the educational value of these courses/activities to our students, so have chosen to allow them, with a funding cap for accountability purposes.

5. It is the ES’s responsibility, to make sure the student stays in compliance with the percentage of funding spent on these courses/activities for their students. The ES should not submit an EA, GEA, service PO, or enroll a student in a course if the amount will exceed their funding cap limit.

Restricted Course Policy

1. Students may take a restricted course all year long if the cost of the course does not exceed the cap for that course.

2. The ES may not spend more than 30% of the student’s IF funding deposited for that student for that semester on any one restricted course.

3. Students may participate in the same course/activity both semesters if the cost of the course does not exceed the 30% cap of IF funding deposited for that student for the semester of the course.

4. Students may take more than one restricted course at the same time. Example: Martial Arts and Skiing may be taken the same semester as long as the ES of the student can approve the funding and the educational value for their student and the student is making appropriate academic progress.

Currently Restricted courses:

The following courses/activities are currently restricted to 30% cap of IF funding deposited for that student for that semester:

Golf classes	Gymnastics classes	Horsemanship	Ice Skating
Ski/Snowboard classes	Tennis classes	Martial Arts

The following courses/activities are currently disallowed:

Aircraft Related	Archery	Gymnastics on horseback	Mountain Bike riding trips	Ice/Roller Hockey
Kickboxing or Boxing	Outdoor rock climbing	Rebounding devices (trampoline, etc)	Sailing/Boating lessons	Scuba diving
Sculling	Water skiing	Welding	White water rafting	Cosmetology
Skateboarding	Surfing	Aerial Arts

· The school cannot pay for team sports, dues, fees, or memberships.

The following courses/activities have additional requirements and the approval time may take longer:

· These courses/activities are all required to be taken with a commercial vendor. The only process for allowing student participation in these activities is through GEAs, EAs, and service POs.

· The ES should not complete a PO Request in ES WEbfiles until he/she has received all needed Additional Requirements paperwork for the course/activity being requested.

Fencing	Horse Related	Rock Climbing - Indoors	Swimming
Whale Watching (on water)