BAR HARBOR — The board of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDI RSS) voted Monday night not to recommend that other schools in the system adopt the Southwest Harbor School Committee’s policy regarding tuition students.

The vote was unanimous, with even the three representatives of the Southwest Harbor School Committee approving the motion. The action also instructed the policy subcommittee of the MDI RSS board to continue reviewing tuition-related policies and to “flesh out some more details.”

The Southwest Harbor policy allows the child of a teacher living in another town and teaching at another school in the MDI RSS to attend Pemetic Elementary School as a tuition student. The Pemetic school committee adopted the policy in June after Bronwyn Kortge, who lives in Lamoine and is a part-time music teacher at Mount Desert Island High School, asked that her son be allowed to enroll in kindergarten at Pemetic. The committee unanimously agreed to a one-year trial of the arrangement. Ms. Kortge is supposed to pay $1,000 tuition for the year.

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