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Policy committee pauses student-clubs overhaul after board members warn it is too prescriptive
Summary
Committee members questioned a draft policy that separates curricular and noncurricular student clubs, with concerns that new requirements (committees, constitutions, sponsor approvals) would overregulate clubs and could exclude mentoring Greek-letter youth programs; staff said the draft is not ready for first read.
The Hamilton County Policy Committee on Monday opened a lengthy discussion of a proposed student clubs and organizations policy that would separate curriculum-based clubs from noncurricular clubs and add rules governing both.
Staff member Bennett told the committee the draft attempts to draw a legal distinction between clubs that are extensions of school programming and those that arise from student free speech. "You've got curriculum-based clubs and…
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