Playing It Smart: Safety in Extracurricular Activities

Autor/in	Armenta, Tony
Titel	Playing It Smart: Safety in Extracurricular Activities
Quelle	In: Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 84 (2011) 4, S.155-159 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-8655
Schlagwörter	Field Trips; Extracurricular Activities; Safety; School Districts; Legal Responsibility; Athletics; Athletes; Athletic Coaches + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Exkursion; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Sicherheit; School district; Schulbezirk; Strafmündigkeit; Leichtathletik; Athlet
Abstract	An integral part of the school experience for many students is involvement in extracurricular activities such as athletics, cheerleading, band, and others. Likewise, cocurricular activities, such as field trips, provide a chance for students to connect off-campus experiences to the material learned in the classroom. These types of activities, however, can turn catastrophic if schools are not conscientious with respect to providing prudent supervision and instruction. This article explores a school's and district's responsibilities for ensuring that safety precautions are in place to protect student participants as well as others. Not only do the recommendations contained within the article lessen the chance of successful negligence lawsuits, but, more importantly, they also help ensure that extracurricular and cocurricular activities, such important aspects of a school's culture, remain fun, educational, and, more importantly, safe. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10