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The New Richmond School District long range planning committee was held on 11 November 2005; Scott Needham chairman.
Deb Heyerdahl went quickly through the material on past planning committees, the Reinhardt Population Report and other things.
Bob Ziller requested student enrollment based on 6-9 middle school and 10-12 high school. Judy Remington suggested that K-8 neighborhood grade schools be considered. Bob Ziller urged school board to begin a study on year-round schools, charter schools, and magnet schools as vehicles to increase student performance.
Committee adapted the 11-year population projections on NRSD student enrollment.
Scheduled meetings:
2nd meeting November 29th, 7:00pm, and West elementary.
3rd meeting Subject Middle School bldg.
4th meeting Subject high school bldg.
5th meeting Subject District facilities.
6th meeting Subject, possible referendum
posted by Bob Ziller @ 12:04 PM
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Below is a post currently running on the OTBL blog site. It's a review of the most recent NR School District Long Range Planning committee. If anyone was at the meeting, I would be interesting to hear your view on it.
What's interesting to me is that anybody can hear anything at these meetings -- with all the axes grinding...
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Leadership?
Filed under: General, Education General, Education New Richmond --- NR Resident @ 9:28 am
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“Our classrooms are over crowded and our school buildings are inadequate.”
This is the profound “consensus” statement the Long Range Planning Group is coming up with.
Forcing the results a bit perhaps? No analysis is being done on this. Rather, just jumping to conclusions and turning an opinion into a “fact”.
How many classrooms have a teacher’s aide? Does this have impact on the teaching atmosphere to provide greater personal attention to each student? We assume it does. Is the more appropriate question then not class size, but rather the teacher/teacher aide to student ratio?
Also, regarding class size, wasn’t one of the first things AT$&R did was to lower the “standard” classroom size the District considers? Sounds like a little moving the goal posts. If only Ryan Longwell could do the same.
The “facilitator” was in rare form last night as well. Scott Needham, former School Board member, threatened to go home and quit the group if members raised questions about the lack of diversity of opinion in the make up of the group and the legitimacy of its work. What an impressive display of leadership. But we probably see kids on the playground do the same thing by threaten to take their marbles home too.
Creating less confidence and demonstrating poor judgment. Won't pass many referendums with this strategy.
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