Claremont School Board, March 21, 2018 | Swearing-in, reorganization and regular meeting

Participants

Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Spellings follow the project's 2015-2023 roster where the transcript garbles a name; there are no minutes to check spellings against. Speaker labels come from the dialogue file and its attribution report.
Name	Role	Participation
Frank Sprague	Chair (re-elected this meeting)	Nominated by Benware and elected by voice vote (0:04:20, 0:04:39); runs the meeting from the vice-chair election on. Proposes an April goal-setting retreat as a warned meeting, questions the student-removal wording in policy JICD, and asks whether expulsion is permanent.
Rebecca Zullo	Vice chair (elected this meeting); re-sworn to a three-year term	Nominated by Pierce and elected (0:05:08, 0:05:21). Asks for highlighted typo corrections, asks for time to read the program of studies she received "yesterday afternoon", questions the $500 gift threshold, and reads the policy's ten-school-day limit on bus recordings. Transcribed "Rebecca Zulu".
Michelle Pierce	Member	Moves to table the health-education opt-out change, asks who pays for opted-out students, makes most of the evening's motions (music trip, donation, resignations, policies), and asks to review the school board ethics policy last reviewed "since 2006". Transcribed "The shell. Pierce" in the roll call.
Michael Petrin	Member	Called in the roll call as Michael (0:07:43); asks where the Title I summer program money comes from (2:26:27); seconds the five policies on third read (2:55:43). Speaker label medium confidence per the attribution report.
Jason Benware	Member (newly sworn, three-year term)	Nominates Sprague for chair; asks about fourth-grade reading results and how reliable Title I money is; asks about the pellet-gun clause in JICD. Transcribed "Jason and Ben Ware", "Den West", "Jason Benoit".
Steven Horsky	Member (newly sworn, three-year term)	Supports tabling the opt-out change, asks about pre-kindergarten intervention and summer staffing, and moves the bus-video amendments: board access in closed session for appeals and a "minimum of a 28 day recording cycle" (2:58:32, 3:02:08). Transcribed "Stephen Hawking" at the swearing-in.
Carolyn Towle	Member (newly sworn, one-year term)	Seconds Sprague's nomination; asks for parents'-night feedback and cost figures on the opt-out policy; says she received no orientation packet with the code of ethics; asks why board laptops must stay in the meeting room. Recognized by the Boy Scouts' Good Scout Award (0:49:58). Transcribed "Carolyn Tol", "Toll", "Tall".
Middleton McGoodwin	Superintendent, SAU 6	Presides over the swearing-in and chair election, amends the agenda, gives the superintendent's report (annual report, strategic action plan, middle-school scheduling committee, bullying, a dental research grant), presents the health-education opt-out revision and the policy reviews, and gives a Right-to-Know reminder.
Cory LeClair	Assistant superintendent	Explains the opt-out policy's cost, presents K-10 i-Ready proficiency data and the Title I summer kindergarten program, and answers questions on Title I funding. Transcribed "Corey".
Patricia (Pat) Barry	Principal, Stevens High School	Presents the program of studies and its crosswalk to state graduation requirements; agrees to a vote in two weeks. Transcribed "Mrs. Berry".
Dan (surname not stated)	Elementary administrator	Reports on the parents' information night for the healthy relationships curriculum ("We had, five parents show up that night", 0:46:32) and on when math units are taught.
Josh Malloy	Director of instructional technology	Asked by the superintendent to answer the board-laptop question (3:16:20); says he will check the policies.
Mary Woodman	School district clerk	Administers the oaths (0:01:03), calls the roll (0:07:38), and reads the March 13 ballot results (3:13:43). The chair calls her "Mr. Woodman".
Lexi Grenier	Student representative, Stevens High School	Gives the student report (0:10:46) and later describes online alternatives for high-school health credit (0:40:28). Surname from the attribution report (it is not spoken on this recording).
Unidentified	Stevens High School music teacher	Requests approval to plan a 2019 London and Paris trip (1:23:24). Her name is blank in the transcript; the chair invites "Miss Clench" and the student report thanks "Miss Clines", so the spelling is not established.
Liza Draper	Citizens' comments, Ward 3	"My name is Liza Draper. I'm a resident of Ward three." (0:59:50). Speaks as "the county's sexual health educator" for the healthy relationships curriculum, then for the TLC Family Resource Center's reading series and a June pride celebration; later clarifies the items are separate.
Paul (surname unverified)	Citizens' comments, Ward 2	Objects to the earlier comment (1:06:54) and later asks about the curriculum and the proficiency charts. The chair calls him "Mr. Lucas" and the principal "Mr. Lacus"; the surname is not established.
Joe Osgood	Citizens' comments, Ward 2	"Joe Osgood, Ward two." (1:07:48). Criticizes the state Department of Education's influence; later asks why his name was attached to a slide (1:40:45).
Unidentified	Various	252 of 1,264 dialogue rows (19.9%) are oath responses, roll-call answers, short fragments and crosstalk.

Order of business (reconstructed)

No agenda survives. The list below is reconstructed from the superintendent's and chair's transitions, including the floor amendments to the agenda.
Taken up	Item	What was said and done
0:00:31	Swearing-in of newly elected members	The superintendent: "We are not following normal protocol because we need to swear in the newly elected Claremont School board members". The clerk administers the oath.
0:03:12	Election of chair	Benware: "I'd like to make a motion to recommend Frank Sprague as or to continue as this chair boards." Seconded (the superintendent names Towle). No other nominations; voice vote, no opposition heard (0:04:39).
0:05:06	Election of vice chair	Pierce: "I'd like to nominate Rebecca Zulu for vice chair." Seconded by an unidentified member; elected by voice vote (0:05:21).
0:05:38	Call to order, Pledge, roll call	Roll call at 0:07:38: Steven, Carolyn, Michael, Jason, Michelle Pierce and Frank answer.
0:07:56	Approval of agenda, as amended	Floor amendments by the superintendent: move the Stevens High School program of studies up as an action item, add the 2018-19 music trip, add the reading of the March 13 ballot, and remove item VIII A, the system of care grant, to April (0:08:07). Motion Pierce; approved by voice vote (0:09:53).
0:10:07	Minutes of February 21, 2018	Motion "to approve. The minutes as written." (split between Benware's and Petrin's labels); approved by voice vote (0:10:28).
0:10:35	Student representative's report	Lexi Grenier.
0:22:29	Superintendent's report	Annual report; strategic action plan; consensus vote letting administration fix typographical errors in policies with highlighted changes sent to members (0:32:53); health-education opt-out revision held to the next meeting; middle-school scheduling committee; bullying; dental research grant.
0:59:42	Citizens' comments	Liza Draper, Ward 3; Paul, Ward 2; Joe Osgood, Ward 2. Closed at 1:11:51, when the chair moves the music teacher's item up.
1:12:26	Stevens High School program of studies	Approval deferred two weeks at members' request; no vote (1:19:13).
1:22:13	2019 music trip (added)	Pierce: "I'd like to make a motion to accept her proposal for Chip in 2019." Seconded; approved by voice vote (1:26:24).
1:27:36	K-8 proficiency data	LeClair's i-Ready presentation. Presentation only.
2:01:51	Title I summer kindergarten program	Presentation and questions; no vote taken. Break at 2:32:25.
2:32:57	Review of governance and operations policies; Right to Know; Robert's Rules; retreat	Discussion only. Members to send the superintendent the policies they want on a later agenda; ethics policy to return next meeting.
2:53:08	Action items: $2,000 donation	Anonymous gift to Stevens High School athletics. Motion Pierce, second labeled Benware; approved by voice vote (2:53:33).
2:53:35	Resignations	The director of special education and Christine Downing, high school curriculum specialist, effective July 1, 2018. Motion Pierce, second Benware, "with regrets"; approved (2:54:36).
2:54:37	Five policies, third read	Advanced coursework, advanced placement, emergency care and first aid, relations with police authorities, audio and video surveillance on school buses, public gifts and donations. Motion Pierce, second Petrin; amended on Horsky's points; new motion Pierce, second Horsky; approved by voice vote (3:04:44); the superintendent confirms the approval covers his modifications (3:12:26).
3:04:52	Seven policies, first read	Moved to second read as amended (JICD wording on removal from the classroom). Motion Pierce, second by "Steve"; approved (3:12:24).
3:13:30	Reading of the March 13 ballot results (added)	Read by the clerk.
3:20:28	Adjournment	Motion Benware, second Pierce; voice vote.

Discussion timeline

Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/9682 SchoolBoard032118.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. Quotations are as transcribed; bracketed words are corrections, with the transcript's wording kept where the correction changes sense.

Chronological topics with the most concrete material first.
Time	Topic	What was said	Flags
0:00:00	Swearing-in and reorganization	"we have three three year terms. Rebecca Zulu and Jason, Ben Ware and Steven and Carolyn Toll. One, one year term." The clerk administers the oath; the superintendent then runs the chair election and hands over: "the board chair will run the meeting for the rest of the evening."
0:05:59	Chair's opening	Sprague thanks Brian Rapp, Chris Irish and Alex Herzog and the voters: "It was a hard process, but every single thing passed."
0:08:07	Agenda amendments	The superintendent adds the 2018-19 music trip and the ballot reading, moves the program of studies up, and asks to "redact Roman numeral eight A, and we'll postpone that until April" (the system of care grant).
0:10:46	Student report	Winter formal, the musical and senior play, honor society inductions, the March 14 walkout ("Unlike some other schools, we decided not to take a stand on the gun issue. Instead, we wanted to take a stand for school safety."), the state SAT, the music concerts, a Claremont Realtors Association donation to the Washington trip "of $1,095?", the Fuel Up to Play 60 kickoff, and elementary, preschool and middle-school news.
0:22:29	Annual report and teen-parent housing	The superintendent distributes the annual report and describes a Valley News article on housing for student parents, quoting Cathy Pellerin of the One for All Space child care center, "which is operated by Saw six" [SAU 6].
0:26:33	Strategic action plan	"The board did approve this in August of 2017, but with the turnover of the board, it's important that we understand and you understand this plan". He recommends a presentation by the strategic action team next month. Pierce asks where the public can find it; Zullo: "You kind of have to dig for it on the website."
0:29:54	Typo corrections in policies	Policies moving from Word to Google Docs have typos; the superintendent asks to correct them "without coming back to the board with grammatical corrections". Pierce: "One word could be changed and it could change the whole policy in a different light." Agreed by voice vote on condition that changes do not "substantively alter" a policy and are sent highlighted (0:31:51, 0:32:38).
0:32:58	Health-education opt-out policy	The proposed revision would provide an opted-out student "An alternate attorney agreed upon assignment by the school district in the parent" at the parent's expense; the superintendent: "we are not required to do that by by law." LeClair: 5 or 6 opted-out children in each elementary school after the healthy relationships curriculum, and "our local policy is much more restrictive, and places a greater cost on the district than what is required by law". Pierce proposes to "table this and discuss it more at another meeting"; Horsky agrees. Asked for a cost figure, the superintendent: "I do not have a cost factor." Held for the next meeting (0:49:03).	OBS
0:46:32	Parents' information night	Dan: "We had, five parents show up that night." Pierce says she received nothing; the superintendent says he sent the notice and the take-home sheets to all parents electronically "I think, twice".	OBS
0:50:18	Middle-school schedule and bullying	A scheduling committee starts tomorrow, 3:00 to 4:00; "This will not have a budgetary impact. The budget is locked". He recalls a "almost $1 million reduction" in fiscal 2012-13 and announces work on bullying protocols at the middle school.
0:54:45	Dental research grant	Claremont and Unity "have been awarded a research grant for the next five years" for in-school cleanings, sealants and fluoride, "at no cost to the children, at no cost to the school district." The chair asks whether it will be discussed for acceptance; the superintendent: "It's a done." [deal].	OBS
0:59:50	Citizens' comments	Draper: "The longer we dither, the more children we leave vulnerable to exactly that." She announces the TLC reading series and a first Claremont pride celebration on June 16. Paul: "I can't believe that Claremont, New Hampshire is losing its moral compass." Osgood: "The Department of Education in the state of New Hampshire should not be running our education system in Claremont." Draper returns to say the items were separate; Pierce questions her, and the chair closes comments (1:11:51).
1:13:02	Program of studies	Barry: the printed copy went to the printer earlier and "the program of studies is very much a living document"; scheduling starts the third week of April. Zullo: "I didn't get this until yesterday at yesterday afternoon." Barry: "If that's two weeks from now, that that's that doesn't change anything for us." Benware notes the table of contents "is off".	POS
1:23:24	2019 music trip	This summer's Italy trip has 11 students at "about $400 ish a month"; an earlier approval for London and Paris in 2019 would bring it "closer to $200 a month". Approved by voice vote.
1:28:30	i-Ready proficiency, reading	Cohort comparison: first grade "50% of our students were proficient in reading. In September, only 13%"; second grade 47% against 44% a year earlier. LeClair ties gains to the Reading Wonders purchase "three years ago". Fourth grade shows no gain; Benware: "I want to see next year, in the year after." Vocabulary is the weakest domain in grades 1-5.
1:44:48	i-Ready proficiency, math	"50% of our current second graders across the Claremont district are considered proficient in math." Gains through fourth grade follow the Math in Focus program; geometry is the weakest domain from third grade. Factors listed: class size, a transience rate under which "50% of our fifth graders had been with us from the start", attendance "over 93 or 94%", behavior and identification rates.
2:02:51	Kindergarten readiness	At one school, "Almost 40% of our students entering kindergarten could not read their own name." DIBELS intensive shares fell from "38, 46 and 52%" in the fall to 18%, 22% and 29% at mid-year.
2:07:53	Title I summer kindergarten program	"fully funded through title one dollars": three classrooms of up to about 18, each with a teacher, a speech-language pathologist and a Title I teacher, six weeks, rank-order selection, parent contracts. Cost: "less than $100,000. We get about $950,000 a year in title one funding", from money "we were able to intentionally not spend last year". Benware: "How reliable is title one money?"
2:32:57	Governance policies and ethics	Pierce wants the school board member ethics policy reviewed "because it hasn't been reviewed since 2006" before she signs the acknowledgment. Towle: "I am surprised that I wasn't given an introduction packet". The superintendent promises an NHSBA attorney in-service next month.
2:41:50	Right to Know reminder	The superintendent: "these meetings are public and any business should be done in public." Towle mentions an NHSBA Right-to-Know webinar.	POS
2:44:51	Robert's Rules of Order	"The board meetings I've served on here in Claremont do not follow Robert's Rules of Order to the letter." Benware wants guidelines "rather than just sort of winging it."
2:46:34	Goal-setting retreat	Sprague: "a regular meeting that we would have to warn, but it probably would be a Saturday morning". On scheduling: "I can't communicate with you but I can communicate with you through Middleton." His first priority is funding: "create a sustainable educational experience for our kids without crippling the taxpayer."	POS
2:53:10	$2,000 donation; resignations	"a $2,000 donation that has been awarded the Stevens High School athletic department from an anonymous donor". Accepted. Resignations of the director of special education (transcribed "Christopher Bezos"; surname unverified) and Christine Downing accepted.
2:55:46	Gifts policy	Zullo asks about raising the $500 limit on gifts the superintendent may accept; the policy recites "pursuant to RSA 198 20, be three gifts in the amount of 5000 or more shall require the board to hold a public hearing". Pierce prefers to keep it. LeClair explains the voter-approved spending limit.
2:58:32	Bus audio and video policy	Horsky moves to add "School board for purposes of appeals and or expulsion in closed session per the RSA." The superintendent: recordings overwrite after "about a month". Horsky: "a minimum of a 28 day recording cycle". Zullo reads the policy: "no event, however, shall the recording be retained for longer than ten school days unless the school district determines that the recording is relevant to a disciplinary proceeding." The superintendent: "All right. Minimum of 28 day reporting." Adopted as amended.	OBS
3:05:37	Policy JICD, first read	Sprague: "Removal from the classroom means the student is sent to the principal's office. And I don't think that's always true." Changed to a designated area. Benware asks about the pellet-gun clause; Horsky: "It is actually an RSA."
3:13:43	Ballot results	Three-year seats as read: "Brian Rapp had 269, Rebecca Zullo had 625, Jason Benoit had 589, Dave had 375, and Kelly Malloy had 354. Elected were Rebecca Zullo, Jason Benoit and Steven". One-year seat: "Carolyn Tall had 450, James Allen had 184 and Richard Seaman had 272." Clerk: "Mary Woodman received 838 votes". Budget "726 yeses and 202 nos"; security upgrades 720-224; school buses 620-370; "947 voters voting".	OBS
3:16:03	Board laptops	Towle: "this is a city council member. We had our own computers". Malloy will check the policies; the chair says the laptops stay so the purchase would not look like "an extravagance for school board."

Items flagged for review

These flags are a reviewer's aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each one names the rule it rests on, as that rule read on March 21, 2018, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.

MEDIUM No agenda, packet or minutes for this meeting survive in any district share

MAP.md records no Drive material: the district's shares hold no year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023. This meeting swore in four members, elected the board's officers, adopted five policies and accepted a gift, and the recording is now the only public account. RSA 91-A:2, II, as in force throughout 2018, required minutes including "the names of members, persons appearing before the public bodies, and a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions", "open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting". This page applies the MEDIUM limb of the project's severity rule because the record mitigates the gap: the board approves the February 21 minutes on tape (0:10:07), the clerk is present, and members refer to a packet and an agenda with numbered items (0:08:58), so a minutes routine existed. What is missing is any public copy now. The 2018 text did not yet require minutes to name movers and seconders; that sentence took effect January 1, 2019, and is not applied here.

Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification; source note ends 2017, 165:1 and 234:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2018, the text for all of 2018)

OBSERVATION Bus-recording policy amended to a 28-day minimum while its own text, and the statute, cap audio retention at ten school days

On third read the board amended the audio and video surveillance on school buses policy. Horsky proposed "a minimum of a 28 day recording cycle" so that a pattern of bullying could be shown (3:02:08, 3:03:32). Zullo then read the policy's existing sentence: "no event, however, shall the recording be retained for longer than ten school days unless the school district determines that the recording is relevant to a disciplinary proceeding" (3:03:12). The discussion ended with the superintendent's "All right. Minimum of 28 day reporting." (3:04:18) and a vote to adopt the policies with the amendments (3:04:44). RSA 570-A:2, II(k), as in force since January 1, 2017, permits a school bus operator to make "an audio recording in conjunction with a video recording" only if the school board authorizes it, and provides: "In no event, however, shall the recording be retained for longer than 10 school days unless the school district determines that the recording is relevant to a disciplinary proceeding, or a court orders that it be retained for a longer period of time." A blanket minimum of 28 days for audio, if that is what the adopted text says, would conflict with that limit; the ten-day limit in II(k) attaches to the audio recording, so video kept without audio is a separate question. The record of the next meeting shows the conflict was caught before it took effect: on April 4 the superintendent said the printed policy still carried the ten-day limit, that he had asked legal counsel whether the board could exceed the statute, and that the district had no cameras on its buses (see the April 4, 2018 meeting page). That is why this is graded an observation: the vote adopted language at odds with the statute, but nothing was recorded or kept under it. The board's other amendment, board access to recordings in closed session for appeals, raises no such issue.

Sources: RSA 570-A:2, II(k) (2017 codification; source note ends 2016, 169:1, eff. June 3, 2016; 322:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2017)

OBSERVATION A grant described as "done", and ballot results read with gaps

The superintendent announced that Claremont and Unity "have been awarded a research grant for the next five years" for in-school dental care "at no cost to the school district" (0:54:45, 0:56:23). When the chair asked whether the board would discuss accepting it, the answer was that it was done (0:56:46, 0:56:53). RSA 198:20-b lets a board accept unanticipated money from a governmental unit or a private source only where the district has adopted an enabling article, and in 2018 required a prior public hearing at $5,000 or more. Nothing on the recording says that any money passes to the district rather than to the program's operator, so no rule is shown to apply; the board's own gifts policy, read later the same night (2:56:06), shows members were alert to the question. Separately, the clerk's reading of the March 13 ballot gives no count for Horsky by name: the three-year list reads "Dave had 375" and then "Elected were Rebecca Zullo, Jason Benoit and Steven" (3:13:45), and the one-year winner comes out as "Carolyn Greenslade". The transcript cannot settle whether "Dave" is a garble of Steve; the town's official return would.

Sources: RSA 198:20-b, I and III (2017 codification; source note ends 2005, 188:1)

OBSERVATION The proposed opt-out revision tracks the statute; the cost question went unanswered

The administration asked the board to change its health-education exemption policy so that an alternative for an opted-out student is agreed between district and parent "at the parents expense" (0:33:47, 0:34:21). RSA 186:11, IX-c, in the text in force since September 16, 2017, requires districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material a parent finds objectionable, with "an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent's expense", and "not less than 2 weeks advance notice of curriculum course material used for instruction of human" sexuality. The proposal therefore matches the statutory minimum; the existing policy, under which the school provides the alternative, goes beyond it and is not unlawful for doing so. The superintendent had no cost figure (0:45:11), members asked for one before deciding (0:49:20), and the item was held. The record also shows a parents' night and two electronic notices before the healthy relationships curriculum (0:45:37, 0:47:39); whether that curriculum is "human sexuality" material subject to the two-week notice is not settled on the recording, and the claims made in comment about what state law requires of the curriculum (0:59:50, 0:35:18) are the speakers' characterizations.

Sources: RSA 186:11, IX-c (2017 codification; source note ends 2017, 251:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2017)

POSITIVE Right-to-Know orientation, and a retreat planned as a warned meeting

With three new members seated, the superintendent put a Right-to-Know memo in the packet and told the board that "these meetings are public and any business should be done in public" (2:41:50). The chair proposed the April goal-setting retreat as "a regular meeting that we would have to warn" (2:48:49) and said he would schedule it through the superintendent rather than polling members directly: "I can't communicate with you but I can communicate with you through Middleton." (2:52:34). RSA 91-A:2-a requires public bodies to deliberate "only in meetings" and bars communications outside a meeting, "including, but not limited to, sequential communications", from being used to circumvent the chapter. Treating a Saturday work session as a noticed meeting is what the statute requires; saying so on the record at the new board's first meeting sets the expectation plainly. Whether the retreat was later noticed and minuted cannot be checked from the surviving record.

Sources: RSA 91-A:2-a, I and II (2016 codification; source note 2008, 303:4, never amended)

POSITIVE Program of studies vote deferred so members could read it

Zullo said she received the program of studies only the afternoon before (1:16:12); the principal answered that a vote in two weeks would not affect course sign-ups (1:16:37), and the chair concluded that the school had a working document and the board would approve the final version later (1:19:13). The health-education revision was likewise held so members could ask questions by email first (0:49:03). No statute sets a reading period for these items; deferring a vote until members have read the document is a practice above the legal minimum.

Sources: Cablecast: SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 3-21

Appendix: source files

Official and public sources

Cablecast: SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 3-21 (show 9682; run time from the Cablecast API not retrieved, the API returned 403 on 2026-10-02)
Google Drive: no packet folder, agenda or minutes. MAP.md: "neither share holds a year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023 (checked 9/26/26)." Not searched again for this page, per the run instructions for meetings with no Drive material.

Project files

Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.

Dialogue/9682 SchoolBoard032118.mp4.CSV (1,264 attributed rows; the basis of this page)
Input/Videos/9682 SchoolBoard032118.mp4
Input/Transcripts/9682 SchoolBoard032118.mp4.json
Input/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 61
Scripts/attribution_reports_2015_2023/9682 SchoolBoard032118.mp4.md (speaker attribution report)

Laws and rules cited on this page

RSA 91-A:2, II, 2017 codification (in force Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018): minutes content and five-business-day inspection; no mover/seconder requirement yet
RSA 91-A:2-a, I and II (2008, 303:4): deliberation only in meetings; no circumvention through outside or sequential communications
RSA 570-A:2, II(k), 2017 codification: school-bus audio recording with board authorization; ten-school-day retention limit
RSA 198:20-b, I and III, 2017 codification: acceptance of unanticipated money; prior public hearing at $5,000 or more
RSA 186:11, IX-c, 2017 codification: exception to objectionable course material, alternative at the parent's expense, two weeks' notice of human sexuality material