Parent asks for bullying policy change

A concerned mother and teacher asked the school board to consider amending the bullying policy Monday.

Mikki Kauppila presented school board members with a photocopy of a hurtful text message she said was circulated about her daughter on private cell phones during school hours, an account confirmed in part by secondary principal Monty Buness. A teacher at the high school saw the message, intervened, and the text’s author was punished with a two-day in-school suspension, Kauppila said.

Kauppila, joined by fiancé Aaron Angerman, told school board members her concern was two-fold. First, the text...