Plainfield School District Regulations: Is the district in need of a good Spring cleaning?

I was not going to blog on this subject, Plainfield school district regulations, at least not today, but a couple of messages left on my tweeter account left me wondering if I had missed something on this topic these past few days as it seems the thread of Regulations was tweeted and contested and then it developed into something else? (Oy! for my English readers and Orale! for the Bilingual ones)

Anyway. Since a comment on this topic mentioned that there was no need for the district to have Regulations because Policies were already the last word I decided to go ahead and do a bit more research on School District Regulations. Googling Regulations gives a long list of school districts that have both, Policies and Regulations. What is up with that? Why not us here in Plainfield?ls? Something just doesn't seem to be right, so I wondered if perhaps the Plainfield school district calls "Regulations" something else and it was on this "technicality" that my OPRA request was answered. So I searched and found out that maybe the district calls "Regulations" by the name of "Procedures". If so, would I have to file another OPRA and request "Procedures" instead of "Regulations"? Yikes!

The district is now closed for the holiday break so the answer to this will have to wait until then. In the meantime two more questions came up:

The Regulations that were provided to me have an adoption date of 1997, 2001 and 2009, amendments were made on 2009. Someone did see the need for the district to have "Regulations" more than 10 years ago and in 2009 someone did see the need to amend the regulations that were given to me. On 2009 the district was under a different school board majority and under the administration of Dr. Gallon III but two members of that school board still remain: Lisa Logan Leach and Wilma Campbell. Maybe they will have recollection on this topic of "Regulations".

It is a known fact that the district had a tendency to misplace important documents, this was apparent when the state came to do its 2007 complete state review of the district (QSAC) and was found lacking policies that were later found, so if there was once a "Regulations Manual" somebody has to know just as someone knew about the missing policies. Perhaps the job of creating "Regulations" was just placed on the back burner with all the sudden changes that the district has had since Larry Leverett left? Who knows.

I think the district needs to hire a professional organizer that comes and do a good old fashion "Spring and Fall Cleaning" where shelves, closets, draws and boxes get emptied out, sorted out and categorized by content before they are put back, discarded or listed as in need of update. Really.