CONWAY — While going over incident reports for the current school year, Conway School Board Chair Amy Snow discovered an anomaly at Kennett High School which led to a good discussion on Monday night.
“I saw that there was not one incident for dress code at the high school. Not one,” she said and asked Kennett High Principal Kevin Carpenter. “Every single kid in that building is following the dress code and/or they're just not being disciplined for it?
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