Slippery agenda for 7/9/2020

On the agenda for today's school board meeting, there is a line that appears when you click on the link for Item 6.1.

Item 6.1 will be the discussion and vote on whether to reinstate Board Policy BEDH - Public Participation at Meetings.

This is the slippery line:

"Per the recommendation of the S.C. School Board Association in light of the global health emergency, the board voted May 12, 2020, to suspend policy BEDH, Public Participation at Meetings for all meetings indefinitely."

It's partially true. The Board did vote to suspend BEDH, but there was no "indefinitely" about it.

Although Amelia McKie said emphatically on May 12th that the suspension was temporary, it was not. She just was not telling the truth.

The motion that night was to suspend Board Policy BEDH. Period.
Not "temporarily."
Not "indefinitely".
Not "until the COVID-19 pandemic is over."
Not "until the the state of emergency is over."

The Board suspended it. Period.

Today the Board may correct that error. We'll see.