177. Meetings of school boards shall be public; but the board may refer to a committee, whose meetings shall be private, any complaints made against teachers or pupils, applications for employment by teachers or any other subject of a personal nature.
No person, except a school commissioner or trustee, as the case may be, may take part in the deliberations of the commissioners or of the trustees without permission from the chairman. The latter, for the preserving of peace and good order, shall have all the powers of the presiding officer at an election as defined in section 143.
R. S. 1964, c. 235, s. 197.