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Board approves student handbooks as working documents with added intervention language
Summary
The board approved the elementary and high school handbooks as working documents and directed staff to add a paragraph referencing student support interventions (policy 43-73) to clarify available supports alongside disciplinary consequences.
The board reviewed both the elementary and high school handbooks and approved them as working documents with a requested addition clarifying student support interventions.
Several board members raised concerns about tardiness consequences, the distinction between in-school suspension (ISS) and out-of-school suspension (OSS), weekend detention language, and clarity around drop-off safety and supervision before 07:30 AM. One board member asked that the handbook explicitly reference other available interventions and supports so parents understand alternatives to suspension. "We can put those interventions back in there," the superintendent said, agreeing to reinsert a paragraph referencing policy 43-73.
The motion approved both handbooks with the additional paragraph on interventions and a separation of rewards into their own section; the handbooks will remain working documents and will be updated as administrative guidance is refined.
