School Board meeting news...

1. Stephanie James, Kim Aker, Denise Davis, and I all spoke with concerns regarding more night meetings and the dress code proposals. 
2. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Frye were reelected to chair and vice-chair, respectively.
3. SB meetings for the 13-14 school year were set. Meetings from Sept to May will be held at 6:00pm on the second Thursday of the month. We all will now actually have the opportunity to attend the SB meetings! This a great accomplishment that WCEA has been working toward for several years. We were tasked with getting more teachers to attend :)
4. The dress code proposal was presented by Dr. Robinett. The formal and casual plans that were on BoardDocs were presented and compared to the current dress code. She then explained several drawbacks to implementing a new dress policy - including many of the problems that we had brought to their attention in our remarks. Dr. Robinett's final recommendation was to not adopt either of the proposals - instead she recommended amending the current dress code policy. The policy vote was not held today. We were asked to get feed back on the idea of keeping the current policy with amendments. The vote will likely be at the August meeting. 

The current policy can be found here on p.220-221. The four amendments she suggested were:

• No denim is allowed (excluding dress down days)
• Limit number of dress down days (proposing 10 days per school year - 1 per month)
• No sweatshirts are allowed (excluding dress down days)
• Require employee signature (doesn’t want anyone to violate without them knowing)

WCPS School Board Meeting 7/10 @ 9am

Topics of interest at the SB meeting include:

1. Elections of SB chair & co-chair
2. Proposed dates/times for SB meetings
3. Proposed dress code for teachers

Please come at 9am on Wed to hear the details. If you'd like to share your opinion come a few minutes early to sign-up for public comment.

Check out the proposed meeting dates/times & dress code at BoardDocs.