Update on Granite City Schools’ Dress Code / Uniforms

11Jul/092

Update on Granite City Schools’ Dress Code / Uniforms

The Belleville News-Democrat has posted an interesting follow-up article on the issue of school uniforms in the Granite City public schools.

Someone posted the article as a comment last night on my original post about the uniforms, but I've deleted it there and chosen to link to it from here.

The main point of the article is that the school board met illegally in private to discuss the uniforms, as opposed to keeping their discussions on the uniforms open.

This revelation, of course, doesn't change my opinion on the uniforms. I still think they're a good move and the right thing. It does, though, make me wonder about our school board. I suppose there is some of what many would call "politics in Granite" at play.

Although the commenter added no commentary to the article when he posted it on the old entry, I would suppose he's advocating increased vigilance over our school board and its discussions and moves.

I don't agree, personally, with the "open meetings" law that the board supposedly violated. It sounds ridiculous. We elect people to represent us and to do our work, and they should be able to meet privately about any issue they deem necessary. But the results of their discussions are and should be a part of the public record, and open to public scrutiny. However, the rules are the rules, and it sounds as though the school board didn't play by the rules in this case. Did they?

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July 14th, 2009 - 21:48

Though I do not live in your area, I can relate to this post.
In my oldest sons school, the committee had a meeting regarding uniforms. We elected these individuals from the PTA to make these decisions.
They left the meeting minutes available for the other parents to review. I felt this was appropriate. While they made the ultimate decision, we other parents were able to review and bring up any other points that we felt needed to be readdressed.
..jenn
david sirois
July 17th, 2009 - 16:24

The Illinois State Attorney’s Office is now Investigating this matter.

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