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Public forum brings divided views on proposed athletic policy; policy subcommittee advances handbook changes
Summary
Residents and student athletes offered competing views on a proposed athletic policy during public comment; the policy subcommittee said it approved handbook additions aligning with DESE guidance and the full committee accepted the handbook changes.
Residents, student athletes and committee members spent part of the public forum and a later subcommittee session debating a proposed athletic policy that would affect eligibility when students’ sex or gender identity differs from other team members.
Patrick Sargent, a Leominster resident and local business owner, told the committee he had collected “about 75 plus” opinions and a stack of roughly 20 people who support the proposed policy. Sargent said he understood that Title IX is not directly the policy’s scope but argued most people he sampled would support…
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