It's down to the wire on school uniforms!
At the workshop on Monday night, the board debated for hours about what to do about the uniform policy. At their next board meeting, they either must adopt an actual policy or vote to repeal the rule they passed requiring uniforms for the 2008-2009 school year.
Four of the school board members - Sue Dickinson, Colleen Conklin, Evie Shellenberger, and Charles Gambaro - claimed at the meeting Monday that they had not been contacted by any parents that were against school uniforms. Now is the time to change that! Their email addresses are listed in the side of this website - contact them and let your voices be heard. Peter Palmer, who has withdrawn his support for the board's uniform plan because he feels they have not gotten enough public input on it, would I'm sure love to hear from you in support of his thoughtful position as well.
The next board meeting, where this will be up for a final decision, will be on either the 28th or the 29th, in the evening. Currently the school board website lists a meeting on the morning of the 19th and a meeting on the evening of the 20th. The meeting on the 19th is a brief meeting at which not all the board members will be present, to reschedule the meeting from the 20th. When the final meeting date is determined I will post it here!
I will post more updates later about the drafts that the board is currently working with and will have available to them to vote on at the upcoming meeting.
