A central Kentucky high school is joining the list of those that don’t allow elementary and middle-school students into home football games without an adult. Corey Sayre is a teacher and athletics director for the Anderson County School District. He said school resource officers and off-duty sheriffs’ deputies working the games have had to break up fights and deal with younger kids roaming where they shouldn’t.
“Sometimes we have parents drop off a lot of their kids, and, you know, they're on the practice field, or they were on the track, or they're trying on the baseball field. Even during our scrimmage last week, it was a scrimmage, we had to run some kids out of the dugout.”
The new policy goes into effect next Friday, when the Anderson Bearcats host the East Jessamine Jaguars. Sayre said high school students will be unaffected by the new policy.
“This is mostly for kids that we don't always know as high school teachers and high school administration. We don't always know these kids until they get to us. This is just a policy that we think will make it safer for everybody, and it'll make families a little bit more secure while they're here.”
Sayre said during some games in recent years, up to 50 kids have run around without adult supervision. He said most schools in the area have a similar policy.
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