Board alters training rule for students

5/25/07 * Daily Progress [full story]

Albemarle County students who participate in athletics and after-school activities are role models, and they should be held to a pledge that penalizes underage drinking and drug use off school property, Superintendent Pamela Moran told the School Board on Thursday.

The majority of School Board members agreed, voting 4-2 to pass a revised training rule that offers more counseling for violators and dials down the policy’s punitive aspects that had some parents labeling it as overbearing.