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Roxbury board adopts annual curricula amid public concern over policy edits and opt-out handling
Summary
The Roxbury Board of Education approved its annual curricula after discussion about parental opt-outs for health and sex education; a parent warned that recent policy redactions could remove suicide-reporting language and narrow weapon definitions. Administrators said state guidance requires an opt-out, not opt-in, process.
The Roxbury Board of Education approved its annual curricula during its regular meeting, after trustees discussed how the district handles parental opt-outs for health and sex education and responded to a public commenter’s concerns about recent policy edits.
A parent, Susan Stov of Kenville, said several policy changes in the board packet worried her, including what she described as the removal of a paragraph in policy 5350 that addressed reporting attempted or completed suicides and deletions in the text of policy 8467 defining weapons. "When I was a high school sophomore my…
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