Should cheerleading coaches dictate a booster club?

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1. amomipais82
   

   HI,
   High Schools can charge fees for extracurricular activities so they may require participants in the cheer leaders to pay certain fees (or, in the alternative get funds, if the student wishes, from fundraising activities).  However, your situation is different because the school itself is not fund-raising or requiring the $50 -- it is the booster club that is making such requirement. So, the school should not put a student on probation from school if that student does not raise such funds. Also the school should allow a student to participate in cheer leading no matter how that student relates to the booster club or complies with booster clubs requirements.
   
   Let me know if you have any follow up on this. You may be interested in reading that the booster club may be running afoul of Internal Revenue Service regulations by making such requirements as it has done.
   
   http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopica93.pdf
   
   especially about 90% of the way down in the article:
   
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   Based on our experience with applications we receive in the National Office,
   the most common type of parent-supported booster club is one that supports a public
   school band and music program. Similar to the band boosters, are the school math
   team boosters and sports program boosters. The key fact that distinguishes these
   organizations from the ones previously discussed is that the teams and programs
   supported are taking place in public facilities rather than in privately owned facilities.
   Participants in the programs are selected based on the objective and
   nondiscriminatory criteria set by the schools. The funds raised by the booster clubs
   are often turned over to the public facility which then exercises discretion over
   expenditures to benefit all participants. Where the booster clubs maintain control over
   the funds, they are often limited in the type of expenditures they may make on behalf
   of the participants. This element of public control removes much of the discretion
   evident in these types of private booster clubs. This often negates the elements of
   private benefit and inurement that frequently occur in the private arena.

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