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The board voted 4-to-1 (Bob Hampton was the lone "No" vote) to approve Ken Mettler's policy that would allow schools to offer girls-only and boys-only gym classes. This will be voluntary as coed classes are mandated by federal law (Title IX). And schools will have to work with their current staffing levels. But Mettler had only Chad Vegas on his side for the drug dogs. The program could have cost the district about $55,000 a year and without a whole lot of other numbers to support the success of such programs, the board just didn't see fit to give it a green light. Mettler maintains the program would pay for itself if just 8 students each year were not expelled because they were deterred by the program. (state pays $7,000 per student) And most people can't say easily that they are not for a program that could keep drugs out of schools and could keep more students in school. So I would keep my eye out for this one to come up again. Mettler's second proposal, to...
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