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Spotsylvania School Board likely to take another look at its sports discipline policy at meeting tomorrow Date published: 5/10/2009
By PAMELA GOULD Two Spotsylvania County School Board members said they might ask to table the proposed sports participation policy set for a final vote tomorrow. "I think we need to be very careful about how we proceed," Battlefield District member Linda Wie-land said in a recent interview. "I'm in full support of the policy. I just want to make sure we take the time to get it right." The School Board gave the policy preliminary approval in a 5-1 vote April 27, but asked staff to continue reviewing it. Board member Donald Holmes cast the dissenting vote then, and said this week that he may ask to table it until his concerns are resolved. The system now has no comprehensive policy for sports participation. School officials set about crafting one after nine Spotsylvania students were arrested following a beating incident in a county neighborhood Jan. 11. Each of the students was charged with two counts of malicious wounding by mob. Two teens were hospitalized after the incident, which was unrelated to school activity. The incident, which the Sheriff's Office said was captured on video, came to the School Board's attention after it was learned that two of the charged teens helped Courtland High School win the Battlefield District title in track and field the next month. Holmes has said the policy's wording was a knee-jerk reaction to that incident. Holmes said the proposal doesn't give principals room to exercise discretion, that it treats students as guilty before they are convicted, and that any policy should apply to participation in all extracurricular activities. Lee Hill District board member Amanda Blalock said this week that she hadn't finished evaluating the policy, but supported taking action following an arrest. "I don't know what the answer is going to be, but it's our job to take a look at this and find it," she said. The proposed policy addresses guidelines for eligibility, training and practice sessions for athletes in grades seven through 12. It was crafted after consultation with middle and high school principals and their activities and athletic directors.
MGWork you are correct.
Board Members,
Remember, each of you have an obligation to this County to get this policy implemented. If there is another incident, someone's blood will be on each of your hands.
Let's don't be another VA Tech. They were fearful because of the fact that an expelled student at George Washington University sued. Don't play politics with this situation. Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.
At the same time Chartwells is taking Hr,s away from spoty school workers not just Chartwells workers Who do these workers really work for,Maybe the school system could do a bell out for Chartwells with the extra money there getting from the federal government
The Spotsylvania School Board is stirring the same pot offered up by the Virginia Tech. massacre. VA TECH knew of Seung Hui Cho's bad behavior long before he ever made it to his killing field. The law declared him a danger to himself and others a years before the violence became permanent and irriversable. Even VA Tech's teaching staff and administration knew of Mr. Cho's dark side and propensity for violence.
When "discretion" becomes part of the receipe we should be warned to smell first.
The county proposes holding on to the employee's money so
that they can earn interest on the money instead of the people
who earned it.
To defend themselves , in case of attack from athletes-gone-wild, when walking home from class.
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