Interscholastic athletics in extra-curriculum has been valued as an important educational function in each school levels. However, it involves many problems such as burn-out, drop-out, hazing, and so on.
The purpose of this study is to clarify the cause of the above problems by two perspectives, namely, performance-enhancement and the aim of school education.
The results are as follows:
1. Interscholastic athletics in extra-curriculum has been expected as not only an important educational function but also performance-enhancement. The modified guideline for interscholastic athletics is intended to enhance performance in extra-curriculum.
2. Performance-enhancement has an important meaning for human being in the point that it has a symbolic function for showing what human being could do. On the other hand, the aim of school education is to provide equal opportunity to be educated for every students. Thus, the provision should not be limited for some students.
3. Consequently, the present effort to enhance performance in extra-curriculum is irrelevant both performance-enhancement and the aim of school education. Performance-enhancement should not be taken up additionally in each school levels, but be proceeded by some authoritative athletic organizations. In the aim of school education, if the uniformity in term of performance-enhance is introduced, the abundant possibility of the athletic experience would be spoiled, and also the alienation of most of students would be brought in.
Therefore, the preseent author concludes that the system itself which intends to achieve both performance-enhancement and the aim of school education should be reconsidered for the relevant development.