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Parents, teachers and board members clash over library access and policy 57-80
Summary
A series of public commenters and a board member addressed implementation of the district's new Policy 57-80, debating opt-in vs. opt-out for materials with sexually explicit or graphic content and asking the administration for clearer implementation steps.
Several parents, teachers and at least one board member addressed the Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Local School District Board of Education on Sept. 11 about implementation of Policy 57-80, the district's new rule to implement Ohio's parental-rights provisions for access to sexually explicit or otherwise age-sensitive material.
Mitchell Hirschfeld, a Sugar Creek Township resident and father of district students, told the board he supports the policy's clarifying language and its extension of restrictions beyond the minimum in state law. "Policy 57-80 provides additional parenthetical descriptions ... This clarity helps provide guardrails," Hirschfeld said, adding he favored an opt-in default for material the policy covers.
The comments illustrated community divisions over whether libraries and…
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