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Activities code still to be updated

Committee dismissed with board’s thanks

After more than six months of research and writing, the Healthy Choices Committee officially submitted its recommendations for the revised Activities and Athletic Code to the Durango School District 9-R school board, but it’s not approved yet.

“The way this is written, could I be selling heroin on school grounds and be petitioning to get my suspension (from activities) down to 20 percent while my case is working its way through the court system?” Board President Andy Burns asked Jackie Oros, who co-chaired the committee, at a board meeting Tuesday night.

You’d be expelled, she told him, as per the overall Student Code of Conduct, which supersedes the activities code. But the language in that code says a student may be expelled, not that the student will be expelled. Oros said updating that language is next.

Burns was also concerned about combining distribution of alcohol, illegal and controlled substances in one category in the activities code.

“I think we’re opening ourselves to wordsmithing by a smart attorney,” he said, “I’d like to be explicit and have something airtight.”

The board decided to accept the code but instructed Oros, as chief student advocacy officer for the district, to make the revisions before bringing it back to the board for approval so it can be put into action for the 2016-2017 school year.

The committee was thanked for its hard work and dismissed.

abutler@durangoherald.com

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