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Committee delays final vote on athletics policy after extended debate over coach discretion and student protections
Summary
The committee approved a reading of a revised interscholastic athletics policy but agreed to send the policy back to the subcommittee for clearer language specifying when students or coaches may opt out and how coaches' safety decisions will be reviewed.
The Leominster School Committee completed a formal reading of a revised interscholastic athletics policy but postponed final adoption to allow the policy subcommittee to add clearer language about coach protections, safety decisions and circumstances when student athletes may opt out.
The policy text under review included the line: “If a student athlete chooses not to participate, the district will not penalize the athlete for not participating.” Committee members debated how broadly that sentence should apply and whether parallel…
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