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Residents urge more cursive instruction; caller asks clearer policy language on warrants and immigration agents
Summary
During public participation two speakers urged the board to revisit cursive instruction in elementary grades and to clarify search/warrant language in district policy related to immigration enforcement. Board staff responded that cursive is taught in third grade and that the district will review policy language as requested.
Two members of the public addressed the board during the public-participation segment, pressing for curricular and policy clarifications.
Marie Antoinette Lempel, who identified herself as a long-time Sycamore resident and former district employee, urged the board to revisit cursive handwriting instruction and described concerns that some children cannot read cursive documents. “They weren't able to read a single word written in beautiful cursive, and I was shocked as well as saddened,” Lempel said, describing an instance…
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