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Resident asks board to revise exchange-student rule, calls AR 202.1 discriminatory

Haverford Township School District Board of Education · April 24, 2026
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Summary

A Haverford Township resident urged the board to repeal or amend administrative regulation AR 202.1, which requires a high-school-aged child in host households for exchange students; the speaker said the rule is not standard practice, may be discriminatory, and can be changed administratively by the superintendent.

Colin Quinn, a Haverford Township resident, used the board’s April 23 public comment period to urge action on AR 202.1, an administrative regulation that he said requires host families to have a high-school-aged child in the house to enroll an international exchange student.

"This provision is unnecessary, unsupported, and has a discriminatory impact," Quinn told the board, arguing the requirement is neither…

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