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Canton Local board denies Sunday open mats for wrestler, endorses drafting written Sunday-activity policy
Summary
Canton Local school board rejected a short-term request for Sunday wrestling open mats to prepare for a national tournament and directed staff to draft a written Sunday-activity policy for future exceptions and consistent application.
The Canton Local Board of Education on Tuesday debated whether to allow three Sunday wrestling open-mat sessions for a student preparing for a national tournament and ultimately voted to deny the immediate exception.
Board members spent the bulk of the special meeting weighing two questions: whether the district has—and should keep—an informal, often case-by-case practice around Sunday activities, and whether this particular request rose to the level of an "extenuating circumstance" that would warrant bending that practice. "We don't have board policy on this particular" issue, a board member said during the…
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