Board allows sixth-graders to "play up"

Several parents attended the regularly scheduled Odessa School District board meeting September 28 to express support for a change in athletic policy.

According to the majority, Odessa is the only 1B school that does not allow sixth-graders to “play up” to junior-high level athletics. They contend that since Odessa is now participating in an athletic cooperative, both schools should follow the same guidelines.

Support was not unanimous, however. One parent delivered a petition signed by 7th and 8th graders protesting the change on the grounds that it was “not fair.”

Parent Kim King presented a...