9/5/2007 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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The School Committee believes that school attendance is critical to student achievement. As a result, we strongly discourage the taking of family vacations when school is in session. We believe this to be detrimental to your child's progress. In situations where a vacation must be taken when school is in session, we ask that the school principal be notified. Our experience has shown that providing assignments to be done during a vacation is not productive. Such schoolwork undermines the quality of the vacation, and is generally not a productive educational exercise. For this reason, we do not require teachers to design any out of school activities for students while on vacation. Students are held accountable to make up any schoolwork missed when they return. Mr. Bailey made a notion to accept the school committee statement on consistent attendance, seconded by Mr. Marcelli. VOTE: Unanimous Mrs. Mills suggested having the statement sera home to students, published in a press release, distributed at open house, and have put into future handbooks. 9.4 Revised Public Forum Guidelines- Mr. Marcelli made a motion, seconded by Mrs. Mills to accept the revised public forum guidelines with the following revisions: Add to the form the wording; 'the public comment period is limited to twenty minutes.' Eliminate the wording 'unless more time is requested'. Eliminate the form labeled page 55 in the Committee packet and use the form labeled page 54. VOTE: Unanimous 9.5 Policy Revisions- Mrs. trills made a motion, seconded by Mr. Bailey, to accept the revised pregnancy policy FE with the revision on page 2 to react 'Mashpee Public Schools do'. VOTE: [unanimous Mrs. Mills made a motion, seconded by Mr. Marcelli to accept the revised policy JEE -I . VOTE: Unanimous Mr. Marcelli discussed that due to Paragraph 2 of Policy JD-F , the Mashpee High School Handbook would need to be changed to reflect this Policy. School Committee Regular Meeting 915107