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Bellbrook‑Sugarcreek board tables handbook approvals after debate over exam‑exemption and absence language
Summary
Board members and parents urged clearer language tying the high‑school exam‑exemption rule to the district's 65‑hour excessive‑absence standard and Ohio law; an amendment to approve with administrative edits failed and the board voted to table handbook approval to June 28 for clarification.
The Bellbrook Sugar Creek Board of Education on June 13 deferred approving revised K–12 student handbooks after a lengthy debate about how the high‑school exam‑exemption policy treats absences.
Board members, parents and administrators spent nearly two hours focused on one section that says students lose an exam‑exemption privilege if they "have reached the threshold of excessively absent or habitually truant by state definition." Parents and board members said the handbook wording did not clearly reflect board policy 5200 and Ohio…
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