KBE Emergency meeting

Coaches.... students atletes and parents.... all waiting to hear what the kentucky board of education decided today about the future of fall sports.

Abc 36 sports director bryan kennedy is here with more on their decision.

L3 bryan: white earlier this week, the kentucky board of education announced they'd be having an emergency meeting on friday.

The topic?

Fall sports.

L3: abc 36 news white kbe holds emergency meeting plans to create boundaries and benchmarks to protect ... immediately the fire storm began.

Folks who had spent the last week finally practicing once again believed their season was in limbo.

After more than 16,000 phone calls and unfortunately some threats...the k-b-e announced canceling or th going to be discussed.

Today, the board heard from k-h-s-a-a commissioner julian tacket, dr. stephen stack and former and current superintendents.

All providing information about the safety of athletes playing sports.

Three and a half hours later...the board's job now is to create boundaries and benchmarks to protect the public and students.

They plan to write a letter to the k-h-s- a-a urging them to consider additional consideration of alternative options for high contact sports..

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