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Central CUSD 301 students and parents urge board to preserve year‑long marching‑band PE waivers
Summary
Students and parents told the Central CUSD 301 Board that a corrected interpretation limiting marching‑band PE waivers to the fall semester will force students to drop academic or arts classes; the district said the longstanding practice had been misapplied and that the corrected interpretation will take effect in 2627, with further communication and discussion promised.
Several Central High School students and parents told the Central CUSD 301 Board of Education that a change in how the district applies PE waivers for qualifying activities would harm music and performing‑arts students.
"With this new policy, I have to drop a class just to take PE," said Becker Lang, an incoming sophomore at Central High School, urging the board to reconsider and proposing grandfathering, early (0‑hour) PE, or a pep‑band waiver so students need not give up arts…
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