Board approves student and athletic handbook updates; removes Central Elementary "10 minutes" sentence

The Centerville-Abington Com Schs board voted unanimously to adopt updates to the district student and athletic handbooks, including removing a sentence in the Central Elementary handbook related to a 10-minute makeup-work expectation.

The action came during consideration of old business (agenda item 14). The chair explained staff had circulated handbook drafts; one board member said they had emailed Micah and had asked for the sentence about elementary absences and a 10-minute makeup-work expectation to be removed. A board member then moved to accept the student handbooks “as they were presented with one exception from the Central Elementary, the sentence relating to getting makeup work for any 10 minutes for absences.” Another board member seconded the motion, and the board approved it 5-0.

The board also conducted a final reading and approval of changes to the athletic handbook for the 2016–2017 school year. A motion to adopt the athletic handbook changes was moved and seconded; the board voted 5-0 to approve the athletic handbook for 2016–2017.

The transcript does not specify which individual board members made the motions or which board member seconded; votes were recorded only as a 5-0 tally. The transcript likewise does not list a meeting date in the record provided.

What the change means: the board approved the set of student handbook updates for the district while explicitly excising the listed sentence from the Central Elementary handbook concerning a 10-minute threshold for makeup-work expectations. The athletic handbook changes were approved as presented for the 2016–2017 school year.

Next steps: The board did not indicate any further public hearings or rehearings on these handbook items in the provided transcript; actions were recorded as final votes at the meeting.