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Board schedules consideration of residency appeal and moves to consider closed session on student-discipline matters
Summary
During its Sept. 18 meeting the DeSoto County School Board listed a residency appeal and, for student discipline matters, requested a motion to consider entering executive (closed) session to determine whether to proceed; no public details of the student-discipline cases were discussed on the record.
The DeSoto County School Board on Sept. 18 listed a residency appeal and requested a motion to consider entering executive session to address student-discipline matters.
Mr. Holbrook briefly noted the residency appeal item but no public details were stated in the transcript. Later in the agenda, Mr. Finley presented student-discipline matters and the board president asked for a motion only to determine whether to enter executive session to consider those matters. The transcript records the board asking for "a motion only please," indicating the board was preparing to discuss personnel-related or student-discipline matters in closed session, but the public record contains no substantive details about the discipline cases themselves.
The board noted its next meeting is Oct. 2. The transcript does not record whether the board ultimately entered executive session or any decisions resulting from a closed session because the public record stops after the call for the motion to consider executive session.
