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Parents urge changes to proposed visitors policy as committee adopts new visitor rules
Summary
At the March 24 Falmouth School Committee meeting, multiple parents urged the committee to slow a proposed visitors/access policy that would give the superintendent broad discretion over who may enter school buildings; the committee adopted a visitors policy after debate over photography and handbook language and directed staff to develop implementation procedures.
At the March 24 Falmouth School Committee meeting, several parents urged the committee to revise a proposed visitors/access policy that they said would give the superintendent too much unilateral discretion over who may enter school buildings.
"As written, the policy gives one individual broad authority to decide whether a parent can or cannot enter a school building with no clear balances, checks, or appeal process," Megan told the committee during public comment, asking members to pause the vote and add safeguards. She described a personal experience in which…
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