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Trustees debate phrasing on students' rights, responsibilities
Summary
Board members recommended splitting run-on sentences and clarifying that students 'can expect the right of freedom of expression and association and fair treatment,' while also separately stating that students should respect peers and staff; members differed on tone and phrasing.
Trustees spent a portion of the meeting rewording the student-rights section to reduce run-on sentences and ambiguity. One member argued the sentence should end with students' entitlement to expression and fair treatment and that the obligation to respect others should be a distinct sentence: "students can expect the right of freedom of expression and association and fair treatment period," a committee member said during discussion.
Members debated whether the handbook should phrase responsibilities as earned or as expected, with some expressing that wording should not imply conditional rights. The trustees agreed to reword the passage so the rights statement stands alone and the responsibilities to respect others are clearly separate, then to review the replacement language at the next session.
