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Board reviews and approves handbook changes: dress code, discipline tiers and transportation rules
Summary
The board reviewed updates to the elementary and high school handbooks, including changing the elementary dress-code short-length limit from 3 to 6 inches, adding tiered transportation rules and offense/consequence classes, and updating visitor and bullying policies in the high-school handbook.
Speaker 6 summarized edits to the elementary handbook and explained two substantive changes: the elementary dress code was adjusted from a 3-inch short-length limit to 6 inches to align with the high school, and the handbook added clarified transportation procedures and tiered offense classifications with corresponding consequences. "That 3 inches is just it's just almost impossible to find," Speaker 6 said when explaining the dress-code change.
Britney (speaker 10) summarized high-school handbook updates including visitor ID requirements, updated surveillance language to account for forthcoming tracking sensors, new OSS/extracurricular restrictions (students suspended cannot attend away games), and a probation policy to precede expulsion recommendations. The board moved to accept the handbook changes as presented.
