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Parents, students urge clearer policies on recess, ICE responses and protections for LGBTQ+ students
Summary
Speakers during citizens' comments called for stronger, clearer district policies: Chanel Talbert urged a guaranteed elementary recess policy; Sarah Krasinski requested a formal ICE-response protocol and staff training on FERPA; others thanked the board for supporting queer students and urged continued DEI protections.
Several community members used the board's public-comment period to press the district on student-wellbeing policies ranging from guaranteed recess to immigration enforcement protocols and protections for LGBTQ+ students.
Chanel Talbert, a parent and co-leader of Michigan's "Say Yes to Recess" movement, told the board that while the district emphasizes daily recess, her experience at her child's elementary school is different: teachers sometimes withhold recess for instruction or behavior management. Talbert noted "Policy 8510 is the only current policy that references recess"…
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