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Originally Posted by BillyMac
... some school systems/schools/grades/classrooms in Connecticut have had to temporarily close (moving to online learning) due to COVID cases. If COVID has this effect on curricular activities, what effect will we see on extracurricular activities, especially when people start moving back indoors as the weather gets colder?
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The NFHS, in explaining the importance of high school sports (and other similar activities) during this COVID "plague" when some might downplay the value of high school sports compared to the major health implications presented by such, recently advised schools to refer to high school sports (and other similar activities) as "
co-curricular" rather than "extra-curricular".
Meaning that high school sports, marching band, debate club, drama club, etc., are just as important as algebra, literature, biology, U.S. history, art, geometry, chemistry, world history, wood shop, accounting, trigonometry, auto mechanics, physics, foreign language (sorry, world language), etc., as we try to navigate through this COVID "plague".
If a school can set COVID policies to keep students healthy in calculus class, they must also be able to set COVID policies to keep students healthy while playing football.
The NFHS has often in the past referred to high school sports as "co-curricular" activities, but has now re-emphasized this language in this age of COVID, and COVID's effect on schools and classroom learning.
According to the NFHS, "co-curricular" activities, while not compulsory for gradation and not graded, are just as educationally important (and worthy of occurring in this age of COVID) as traditional "curricular" classroom academic subjects that are graded and are compulsory for gradation.