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Senior asks board to allow paid apprenticeship; family and trustees seek compromise
Summary
A New Oxford senior asked trustees to permit a paid apprenticeship at Kenworthy Funeral Home in place of an elective. The family argued the district policy allows schedule changes for postsecondary goals; administrators cited lab and scheduling constraints and the board scheduled executive-session follow-up.
A New Oxford senior, Ava Garment, told the board she had been offered a paid apprenticeship at Kenworthy Funeral Home and asked trustees to "follow your own policy and act in my best interest" by allowing her to replace an elective with the opportunity.
Garment described the apprenticeship as vital to her planned mortuary science career and said she was not asking for extra work or leniency in graduation requirements but for the chance to pursue an occupational…
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