RFP Staff
♦ Nothing beats a timely video or being able to attend any governmental meeting to know what actually happened. Reports on such meetings can be slanted or missing important information. We will post the School System’s video as soon as they get around to posting it on their website. The school system is often lax in this department.
Here are the quick notes on last evening’s “work session”:
• High school students will be permitted to carry mace/pepper spray/and other defensive sprays in the 2016-2017 school year when the BOE amends its current policy booklet.
Yesterday there were free ranging discussions about pepper spray/defensive sprays/and whether personal “safety razors” could be brought on campus. Although the discussion sometimes became humorous and touched on potential errors in carrying defensive sprays in handbags, the end result was this: the BoE agreed to allow high school students only to carry mace, pepper spray, or other defensive sprays as soon the policy wording is changed in the 2016-17 student handbook. Also new policy, once written into the 2016-2017 student handbook would allow disposable razors for personal shaving use only.
As a special consumer note: not all pepper sprays/mace/and other defensive sprays have the same potency. Some of these sprays are virtually useless in self-defense because of their lack of important ingredients. Check behind any spray you buy–Consumer’s Reports are a good source.
• Live streaming video of BoE meetings was discussed as a help to the many persons who work during the day and can’t attend meetings held earlier in the day (Prior to 5 p.m.). The BoE agreed to bring this discussion back during the upcoming June work session.
• Better ways of announcing BoE meetings were discussed and will have continued discussion at the May 23rd business meeting.
• A discussion of teachers working from home to make up days missed occurred.
• Discussion of raising school lunch prices by $.25 cents. Nothing set in stone yet.
• More convenient BoE meeting start times were brought up with the possibility of 5 p.m. start time with public commenting at 6 p.m. This is what the Salisbury City Council started doing recently.
Stay tuned for whenever the school system decides to post the video.
