<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WHEREAS: Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students have spoken out about troubling levels of sexual harassment and assault; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WHEREAS: Students have repeatedly advocated for more education around consent and prevention</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">of gender- and sex-based discrimination; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WHEREAS: Educators in the Wellness and Athletics Departments as well as school leadership have</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">joined the students in pushing for additional required Health instruction; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WHEREAS: The School Committee and Interim Superintendent are on record supporting further </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Health education that would address sexual assault prevention, consent, healthy relationships, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and related matters; and</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WHEREAS: The School Committee holds that this supplementary learning would help improve the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">climate at the high school as well as better prepare students for external situations; now therefore </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">be it</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RESOLVED: That the School Committee changes File IKF High School Graduation Requirements </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Policy from five Health credits to fifteen Health credits, providing a second semester of Health c</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ourses for the class of 2026 in their junior year and every class thereafter; and be it further</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RESOLVED: That the Wellness Department will develop the new curriculum in collaboration with a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">group of students representative of the student body; and be it further</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RESOLVED: That the School Committee revises File IHAE Physical Education Policy to specify that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">waivers provided to CRLS students participating in approved team sports will apply to physical </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">education, but not Health course requirements.</span></span></p>
