[Haru Hara Haruko]

Otherwise, you could end up with a situation where kids from all over the area were clamoring to get into a particularly good program (band, science, math, whatever) whether they were registered students at that school or not.

You mean people accessing a service thye pay for? The horror!

You know quite well what this is about: It is about petty bureaucrats telling the people who pay them how to behave. The bureaucrat should lose his job and his house. Such people deserve humiliation.

[Chiapet]

"You mean people accessing a service thye pay for? The horror!"

Actually, you're wrong about them paying for the service. As someone pointed out in a post above, if the girl isn't part of the registered headcount for the school, then the school receieves no money for her. And as someone pointed out in a post below, if the school has to allow everyone who pays taxes into the school's programs, then they would have no right to exclude adults either.