The Eastern Pulaski School Board approved amendments to a couple school policies this week. Superintendent Dan Foster says the policy regarding the use of seclusion and restraints got a minor update. “What that was is mostly for special education students, who sometimes pose a threat to themselves and/or others, if they become violent,” he explains. “The main ingredient is trying to find ways to deescalate that situation before you must use seclusion and restraints. But basically, what this language did, a lot of schools have school resource officers now, and so this language included school resource officers.”
Foster says the school board also updated the high school’s policy for releasing students’ names, addresses, and phone numbers to military representatives, “Just basically following the same thing that’s been done for years, that it’s an opt-out item, that we have to notify the parents each year that if this information is requested, we do have to provide it, unless they’ve opted out.”
Foster says the updates are designed to bring the policies in line with changes to state statute from the last legislative session. Also during Monday’s meeting, new policies on suicide prevention and awareness, as well as student religious civil liberties, were presented for first reading. They’ll be up for final approval in March.
