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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some more after school activities to build some community-my kids’ middle school has astonishingly little offered-two sports teams in per season which take about 20 kids each in a school of 1200 kids and some Wednesday After school activities that you can pay for if you have the money.

When I was in public school-we had so many options available-any kid who wanted to could do a sport.  It’s no wonder kids are always on their screens [/quote]

My middle school offered the standard sports but in addition to that had about 15 after school club opportunities, several of them athletic such as volleyball or basketball drop in.[/quote]

I used to sponser three afterschool clubs, plus chaperone extra evening and weekend events. I cut back for three reasons:

1) subs dried up in 2020 so I usually have to do emergency class coverage 3-4 times a week during one of my two planning periods. The other planning period is committed to meetings. The grading, emailing parents, and other work I would have done during planning periods now has to be done after school and on weekends.

2) job creep. There’s so much just more to do than six years ago. Things that used to be the responsibility of a specialist have now been delegated to classroom teachers. I’m often mentally and physically drained by 3:00 pm and it’s hard to summon up the enthusiasm and focus needed for the clubs I did.

3) the kids and parents require more management now. My school requires clubs to admit any student with a parent permission slip. As a result, we get kids who aren’t interested in the activity, but need a place to hang out. I’m all for kids having a safe place to be, but we get kids who are disruptive, disrespectful, and disinterested in the activity. Then, I have to contend with parents who pick their kids up late. The sponser is responsible for the club attendees until they are picked up. There are parents who are habitually 15-20 minutes late. Some are 30-45 min late. Sponsers don’t get paid more when kids are picked up late. I also got tired of parents who arrive late in the evening or weekend when I was just volunteering my time.

I now sponsor just one club and only do my required two chaperone duties.

Conditions have to improve if students, parents, and admin want more clubs and activities. [/quote]

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