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Watchung Hills board approves first reading of revised Policy 57‑56 on records and athletics
Summary
The Watchung Hills Regional High School District board voted to adopt a revised Policy 57‑56 on first reading, removing a sentence limiting staff notification of a student’s gender identity, clarifying confidential handling of birth-name records, and adding that NJSIAA guidelines will govern athletic participation; the vote passed with one abstention and two 'no' votes.
An unidentified board member moved that the Watchung Hills Regional High School District board adopt revised Policy 57‑56, and the motion passed on a first‑read roll call vote on Feb. 12.
The revision removes a sentence that read, in the draft, that "there is no affirmative duty for any school district staff member to notify a student's parent of the student's gender identity or expression," a line Doctor Jewett said had been struck from the revised version because "people just didn't love the language of that line." The revised policy also specifies that permanent student records containing a student's…
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