North Judson-San Pierre school board members held the first reading over a few different policies when they met last Tuesday. Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin explained that the proposed policy revisions were a result of the spring 2017 legislative session. She said a majority of the changes had to do with correcting typos and adapting language in some places.
However, she highlighted a few that included more details including polices over child neglect/abuse education, suicide prevention and background checks. One proposed change deals with background checks. Other than asserting that checks must be conducted on an annual basis, the policy also indicates that the specific school corporation is responsible for the cost of the background checks, once the person is an established employee.
Additionally, Dr. Zupin stated that one proposed policy revision will require staff training, “We have the student suicide awareness/prevention – we’ll need to train our staff for that in a two hour session which we’ll do in service”
The final revision mentioned by Dr. Zupin detailed age-appropriate, research based child abuse and neglect curriculum that must be implemented into all classrooms next year. Members of the board did not provide any feedback about the proposed policy changes. The second reading and the adoption proceedings will take place during the first North Judson-San Pierre school board meeting in January.
