There will be a revised sick leave policy for approval before the Board at its next regularly scheduled meeting. This new policy would require ALL employees to provide a doctor’s excuse any time they are absent for three or more consecutive days, or when they are absent only one day immediately prior to or following a school holiday, or in the case of “repeated absences of less than three days”. It also seeks to prescribe the exact form in which such a doctor’s excuse should be submitted. For the following reasons, the Red River United strongly urges you write the Caddo Parish School Board, asking them to vote NO on agenda Item 8.07 – Revisions to CPSB Polices, re: Absences and Leaves.