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School board adopts revised student protest policy after wording change
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Summary
Following a second reading and discussion focused on a wording change that removed the noun 'students' in favor of 'they,' the board restored 'students' and adopted Policy JIJ on student protest/demonstration/strike by voice vote (7-0).
The Laconia School Board voted April 21 to adopt a revised student protest and demonstration policy (Policy JIJ) after members debated a wording edit at second reading.
During the policy review (second read), Speaker 2 summarized committee edits, including reflowing a paragraph and changing a fourth-paragraph term from “abridge” to “affect.” Chair (Speaker 1) raised a grammatical concern about a highlighted sentence that began “when student protest demonstration are strikes” and argued that changing the word “students” to “they” removed the sentence’s subject, creating ambiguity. “So instead of using they, which has no reference to the sentence pronoun, it would say students,” the chair said, and the board agreed to revert the change.
With that revision on the floor, a board member moved to adopt the policy, another seconded, and the chair announced the policy was adopted by voice vote (recorded as seven-zero in the transcript).
The board did not specify additional implementation steps in public session; the policy will be incorporated into the district handbook materials the policy committee is reviewing.
