JAY – School Committee members are scheduled Thursday to take up a revised classroom assignment policy for students in grades kindergarten through eight.

The amended version gives parents a chance to fill out a questionnaire providing input into the placement process and adds an appeal process.

The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, at the Middle School library.

Board members voted 4-to-1 in October, with Mary Redmond Luce dissenting, to approve the first reading of the policy.

It takes two readings before the Jay School Committee adopts a policy.

In October, committee members recommended that an appeal process be added to the proposed policy and parent Bob Deane requested that parents have some input in the classroom assignment.

Redmond Luce and committee member Gene Uhuad volunteered at the time to work on amending the policy with staff.

The proposed policy states that the final decisions regarding class placement are the authority of the building principal or designee. It also states that the teachers provide significant input for placement for the next school year and that information from parents is important to the placement decision of their child and to ascertain their learning styles.

In other business, committee members are expected to consider approval of a school physician, Dr. Leslie Harding, approval of an educational technician authorization plan and approval of a choral accompanist position.