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Parent urges parental-control approach to library access and cell phones, questions executive session timing
Summary
During public comment Michelle Kosinski urged the board to give parents control over sensitive library materials and to keep cell-phone policies simple, and she questioned why an executive session was added to the agenda at the meeting.
Michelle Kosinski, speaking during public comment at the April 7 Elizabeth School District Board meeting, urged the board to let parents control access to sensitive library materials and to simplify cell-phone rules that she said the district cannot police faster than technology changes.
“Parents can pick, and it's a simple solution and the lawsuits die,” Kosinski said, urging the district to make a sensitive-book list accessible to parents in the library portal or to place disputed books behind the circulation desk under parental-request controls to end litigation. She suggested that parents be allowed to choose which books their children may access and that the school keep “a simple policy on the phones that can't be distracting during classroom time.”
Kosinski also criticized what she described as the district’s public-relations approach and asked why the executive session had been added when it was not on the original agenda; a board member responded that the board had approved an amended agenda at the meeting.
The transcript records Kosinski’s remarks as public comment; the board did not take action on the suggestions during the meeting. The district’s transcript and meeting record do not show a formal board response adopting the proposed parental-access change or a vote on cell-phone policy at this meeting.
