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Board updates student-handbook discipline rules and expands approved uniform colors and elementary shorts
Summary
The Beauregard Parish School Board approved discipline committee recommendations on March 13 to add “digital” harassment to the student handbook, expand penalties for repeated electronic-device violations and broaden possible consequences for deliberate injurious acts; the board also approved dress-code changes to allow black as a parish-wide color and permitted certain walking shorts for elementary students.
The Beauregard Parish School Board on March 13 approved revisions to the student handbook’s discipline provisions and approved changes to the parish uniform dress code recommended by the discipline and dress-code committee.
Why it matters: The handbook changes increase the district’s disciplinary options for severe deliberate acts and for repeated electronic-device violations; the dress-code changes standardize approved colors and permit walking shorts for elementary students.
Key changes approved - Harassment language: The handbook will add the term “digital” between “verbal” and “physical” in the harassment/hazing/cyberbullying section to explicitly address digital forms of harassment. - Electronic-device violations: At the…
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