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Brookings board signs off on handbook changes, highlights phone‑management pilot and new rules on manipulated images
Summary
Board approved high‑school handbook changes tightening attendance (10 absences = excessive), aligning the grading scale with larger districts, and adding language banning manipulated images; the superintendent praised the high‑school 'yonder pouch' phone‑management pilot as showing early success.
The Brookings School District board approved revisions to the high school student handbook that include a firmer attendance contract (10 absences considered excessive), updated language around electronic devices tied to the school's new phone‑management system, and a new policy addressing manipulated images in student materials.
Superintendent Schultz told the board the high school implemented 'yonder pouches' this fall, which keep…
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