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Board debates tougher vaping penalties, reviews bus conduct rules and several policy revisions
Summary
Trustees considered tougher penalties for vaping and nicotine possession, adoption of a recodified school‑bus conduct policy, and first‑reading updates tied to Read to Succeed and state testing rules during the May 20 Lexington One board meeting.
Lexington County School District One trustees on May 20 reviewed multiple policy changes affecting student conduct, testing and student safety. The meeting combined first readings, public explanation and several final votes.
Tobacco and vaping discipline
The administration proposed revising the discipline ladder for possession or use of tobacco and vaping devices in schools. Under the recommended change, a first offense would result in one day of out‑of‑school suspension plus an online tobacco‑cessation course; a second offence would draw two days out‑of‑school suspension and a parental/approved-program intervention (for example, LAREDAC or another approved course); a third offense would remain a recommendation for expulsion and an expulsion hearing.
“We're really trying to do with this is we're trying to just deter students from having them at school altogether to hopefully avoid those types of situations,” one administrator said during the discussion, describing the administration’s…
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