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Yet another grey area not defined by the law (and another reason to lift restricitons on where one can carry).

As commonsense would dictate (I know, I know) being at the zoo when a fieldtrip comes in doesn't constitute a "school sponsored event" assuming you are not a member of the party. Band concerts, graduation, and sporting events that are held off school grounds, in a designated "premise" controlled (leased, rented, borrowed, etc.) by the school at that time would be a sponsored event.

Just cause a school group shows up at the mall to do a study on marketing doesn't make them in control of the mall. As long as I am not in their party, I am not attending or participating in the event.

Just to throw a kink in things, how would you know it was a school sponsored event? Do they have to post notice of some type. What if you were at the zoo, enjoying your day, and a school group came in. Do you have to leave (or disarm)? If the school group is on one side of Sears and you walk in the other side and don't know they are there, are you in violation? If a school is renting a room in a hotel? What about a room in the publically owned civic center? Is the whole civic center off limits.

You bring up a good question. Commonsense dictates one answer, case law the other. I don't know of any case law that has arisen that addresses this. Certainly the letter of the law is vague at best.

Lots of ways to look at it. None very clear.