Now that the charter school is in session, even more problems seem to be coming up. The newest situation is the question as to whether students at the charter school should be allowed to participate in city-wide extracurricular activities. Gloucester's All City Band seems to be the main focus.  The band director Davis Benjamin said that the students would not be able to continue in this after school activity after becoming enrolled in a school that wasn't part of the Gloucester Public School system. His decision has extended to all after school programs in the district and the School Committee's Program Subcommittee voted unanimously on this issue, agreeing with Benjamin. Mayor Carolyn Kirk is opposed to this decision "because it perpetuates acrimony and further divides our community," shes says in an email statement last Friday. Kirk has been opposed to the charter school from the beginning and she feels that by excluding these kids it will divide the community even more. However there are other people that say schools cannot afford to dedicate resources to students who have chosen to leave the district for a state funded school, especially when the state money funding it was taken from the city. Some opinions say that the independent charter school is certainly still a public school and there is no reason that the students attending charter should be excluded. It has been said that this policy has only happened because city officials and residents are still very angry about the school and how it got pushed through a seriously flawed approval system. This issue will continue to be  problem for many people in the future.