Extracurricular Activities
Your high school years should provide some of the best times of your life. The administration and staff at LHS have developed an extracurricular program to help you do this. The LHS Activity Directory is a tool for you and your parents to use when deciding which of the clubs and activities are right for you. Talk to your teachers, club advisors, and other students. Drop in at a meeting or attend an activity to see which ones you enjoy. We have something for everyone! Lakewood High School does more than teach academic subjects; we socialize adolescents toward adulthood. The diversity of our extracurricular program have the potential to provide you extra opportunities to gain skills to function in a complex, competitive world.
Organization
The control and government of the various clubs are vested in student officers, aided and counseled by faculty members, with the approval of the LHS administration.
Standards of Leadership
To hold a position of leadership in an organization sponsored by Lakewood High School for LHS students, a student must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA or better and behave responsibly as outlined in the LHS Rules, Rights & Responsibilities section of this handbook.
Policy Regarding Attendance, Conduct, and Extracurricular Participation
Participation in or attending our extracurricular activities is a privilege that is regulated by LHS Rules, Rights, and Responsibilities and the Code of Conduct established by the Lakewood Board of Education. Students participating in extracurricular activities may not be absent due to illness for more than four periods on the day that they plan to participate in that activity. Participation is defined as taking part in a practice, rehearsal, performance, or contest. Students who serve in-school assignments are eligible to participate in all extracurricular activities. Students who serve out-of-school suspensions are not permitted to attend or participate in any school functions or activities during the suspension period. Failure to maintain these standards will result in temporary removal, suspension, or exclusion from the activity as determined by the club advisor and LHS Administrator, after appropriate due process.
Club Regulations
In addition to regulations shared with advisors at the beginning of each school year, the following regulations govern student participation in school activities:
• A student may be elected officer of not more than two clubs.
• A student may be president of only one club.
• Students holding a Student Government office may not run for a Senior Class Office while they are holding that office; or Senior Class officers may not run for a Student Government office during their tenure.
All club activities shall be held under the direction of the advisor for the club