By Courtney Tanner | The Salt Lake Tribune | Photo by Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune

A conservative member of Utah’s state school board is proposing a 36-page policy update for what teachers can and can’t do.

Christina Boggess, who represents District 8 covering western Salt Lake County, has drafted a long list that she wants included in the state’s rules as behaviors that would be “immoral, unprofessional, incompetent, unethical or noncompliant” for educators. She is also recommending stricter penalties for those who break the rules and lowering the threshold for a “conviction” in disciplinary cases.

Overall, her rewrite would mean a much more prescriptive approach by the Utah State Board of Education on the possible violations that could lead to a teacher losing their license.

“Being licensed is a privilege, not a right,” Boggess writes in her proposal.

Some educator and parent groups are sounding the alarms.

“This only serves to undermine trust and collaboration,” said Sara Jones with the Utah Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, during public comment at the board’s monthly meeting Thursday. The proposal was originally supposed to be debated Thursday, but got bumped to Friday afternoon’s agenda.

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