Updates to Eastern Pulaski’s student handbooks will be considered by the school board next month.
Superintendent Dan Foster says there aren’t any major changes, but a few concerns are being addressed. “I think the elementary added one little language that they were having in their discipline about using the thumb and the forefinger here as kind of pointing at somebody like a gun,” he explains, “and they’ve had a little issue with that at the elementary.”
Some updates have also been recommended for the Winamac Middle School handbook. “I think they had to spell out a little bit more clearly the vaping, the vape pens and that kind of stuff, which really wasn’t included in their handbook,” Foster says. “It was certainly not appropriate to be at school anyway, but they did go back and add that into the handbook.”
The proposed high school handbook adds a description about the Warrior Academy. However, Foster says many of the handbook changes simply involve grammatical corrections and other cleanups.
Each of the three principals presented the proposed changes to the Eastern Pulaski School Board last week. Next school year’s handbooks will be up for final approval during board’s May 14 meeting.
