School board workshop reviews broad revisions to student code of conduct, highlights alternative school rules and counseling plans

At a school board workshop, staff presented proposed revisions to the district’s student code of conduct for the 2025–26 school year, and the board and administrators spent most of the session debating rules that govern students placed at the district’s alternative program (the academy), counseling for drug- and alcohol-related infractions and operational clarifications ranging from student account monitoring to bus instrument policies.

The review committee’s recommendations were presented by Mr. Leesburg, director of safety and security, who said the committee had drafted language across multiple sections and would review the document “page by page” for adoption at the next meeting. “Student accounts activities are subject to monitoring by both human and oversight and third party software. This monitoring applies to your account that is provided by the school district,” Mr. Leesburg said, describing new language added by the district’s MIS department that notes school-provided Google accounts are monitored “365 days, 24/7.”

The most contested item during the workshop involved the academy’s criteria for early return. Under the draft language the academy will continue to use a mix of attendance, behavior and academic measures for early-return determinations, but the document clarifies that the metric may be applied every nine weeks. The proposed academy language states students may have “no more than 3 discipline referrals or no more than 1 discipline referral resulting in out-of-school suspension (OSS) per 9 weeks” as part of the conditions for…