Over the last several days some question have been raised by parents about the $30 a year activity/lunch fees that are charged for each student. I have reached out to the administration. As they understand that not all of the grade 7-9s stay at the school every lunch hour and may or may not participate in the clubs or intermurals. However each and every student has the same opportunity to take part in the noon activities so the noon hour fee is charged for each student.
Here is part of what was explained to me.
“The fees are then used to provide noon activity equipment because we can’t use the PE equipment dedicated to classroom instruction (the amount of loss/damage is significant and we can’t risk being unable to run units because we don’t have enough footballs for example). Equipment for lunch activities has to be purchased for each group so we needed 16 sets of everything for grades 5-6, and 9 sets for grades 7-9. Each set of equipment was approximately $300 (x25=$7500).
We also purchase materials such as the novels for the Rocky Mountain Readers club, we have to replace sets of board games, chess sets, etc on an ongoing basis due to loss of individual pieces. There are costs associated with intramurals, etc. so you can see how the actual costs of lunchtime activities exceed the fees collected.”
If you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to Ross. He will he happy to talk to you about this matter.