South Heart School board listens to public comment, discusses student absences

SOUTH HEART, N.D. — The South Heart School board convened on Wednesday, Nov. 11, for a regular meeting. The board members listened to public comment on the video and audio surveillance topic dismissed during the Oct. 14 meeting and discussed public concern regarding student absence policy. Early into the meeting, the school board listened to public comment from two speakers: Dr. Chip Poland and South Heart science teacher Kay Poland. Both brought up the topic of audio and visual surveillance cameras in classrooms that was discussed and dismissed at the last regular meeting. Dr. Chip Poland was the first to speak. He expressed feeling as though what he heard from the public that night did not fully resonate with all of the board members. What I heard was no and, in some cases, perhaps hell no, Chip said. Explaining that concerns about audio surveillance seemed to have been the public s biggest concern, Chip pointed out that Dickinson State University has manual