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Administrators propose adding Friday detention and piloting phone pouches as discipline update
Summary
Central office officials proposed adding Friday to the policy’s detention options to reflect a four-day school week and said they will pilot a phone-pouch device, funded from remaining 2023 bond money, to let students keep phones for emergencies while blocking internet access during school hours.
A central office official (Speaker 1) told administrators the district is proposing a small change to the student-discipline policy to reflect the shift to a four-day school week: adding "Friday" alongside the existing "Saturday" detention option.
"I did not receive a single recommendation, a single idea," Speaker 1 said, describing that principals and administrators were asked to propose edits and largely did not. The official framed the edit as definitional and limited: "I just added the Friday there."
The proposed change comes after the district shortened its instructional calendar to four days, which has made some…
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