BONNIE COBLENTZ
Starkville school officials addressed the issue of the public’s ability to participate in meetings at their Tuesday night meeting where they also took off the agenda an amended policy that would have instituted a uniform for teachers.
All board members were present for the meeting, which was attended by capacity seating in the board room and an overflow of at least 20 people listening in from the hallway outside the room.
The meeting began with Superintendent Judy Couey removing from the agenda the item asking the board to adopt the amendment to the dress code policy. No action on employee dress codes was taken.
The amendment originally proposed called for K-5 teachers to wear “outerwear consisting of black vests, black smocks, or black jackets with the School/Starkville logo. Teachers that [sic] do not wish to wear the identifying outerwear may wear black, white or gray shirt/blouse with identifying school/district logo.”
For teachers in grades 6-12, Millsaps Career and Vocational Center and the Quad County Alternative School, the dress code was the same with the exception of black, white or gold shirts with the school or district logo.
Lisa Spencer, president of the Starkville Association of Educators, was on the agenda to speak to the board, and when her turn arrived, she told them that she had come to address the teacher uniform. The board asked her to proceed with her comments even though the item had been removed from the agenda.
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