Regular monthly meeting of the BBOE. Last week's meeting was a caucus that was not "public". This information was not available to us, and furthermore it was posted in the BCN as a regular meeting.

Please see my posting this evening on the Message Board under, "Dwindling Legal Fund". It goes into detail about why it is so important for us to have representation at this meeting. It seems that they will be discussing, if not actually voting on an amendment to the policy that will impose further restrictions - this time on outerwear.

A meeting at 8PM on Halloween poses a particular challenge for most of us. I do not know myself if I will be able to attend because of the personal commitments I have at home. If any of you do not have Halloween related activities or other conflicts, I am urging you to attend and challenge the board about the following issues during the Q&A period:

1) Outerwear
2) School pictures
3) Enforcement variations from one school to another: our own members have reported that each individual school is choosing to enforce on their own timetable, and according to the whims of their faculty and administration. This is not our imagination, we have proof. What is being done to protect our children from these abuses and inconsistencies, why are they occurring etc.?

Please contact me directly with any questions.

Thank you,
laurie