Cherokee elementary to host Meet the Teacher tonight
August 8, 2018
Cherokee elementary teachers will be available tonight, Aug. 8, to meet students and parents from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Principal Ruth Richmond told the Cherokee Board of Education Monday night that 221 students, not counting the 3-year-old program, are enrolled in elementary classes. Fifteen students have moved but the school has 19 new students.
High School Principal Jeremy Hickman said around 130 completed enrollments have been turned in with ten new students. The Miss Cherokee Pageant was set for Tuesday, Aug. 7. The first day of school will be Thursday. The FFA will be hosting a Back to School Social on Monday, Aug. 13, at 6:30 p.m. Meet the Chiefs night will be Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 7:30 p.m.
Superintendent Donna Anderson reported the finishes on the building project are being done now, and all the houses are torn down.
The school board approved a number of blanket purchase orders and other payments. One of the larger payments is to Hitch It Trailer Services for $7,000 for a theater trailer. Other purchases include music supplies, desks, coaches clinics lodging and supplies, ag meetings, software and learning programs, and school supplies.
The school has numerous activities accounts open. They are trying to close the ones they can and distribute the remaining balances into other activity funds.
Debbie Boothy has submitted her resignation from the 3-year-old program, and that resignation was accepted.
Board members voted to approve free breakfasts for certified and non-certified staff and the school district for the school year just beginning. They had already approved free breakfast for students. This action adds school personnel.
The 11th and 12th grade mathematics and science courses taken from Career Technology Centers for the school year were approved for high school credit.
Following a closed executive session, board members voted to employ Megan Hickman as elementary counselor and librarian, Tanner Bowman for maintenance and extra duties, Kasey Klick as high school custodian, and Todd Swafford as elementary custodian. The board discussed and voted to approve a librarian statutory waiver and deregulation for the library K-12.
In another action, adjunct teaching status was approved for Brooke Meyer in anatomy and physiology from Northwest Technology in Alva; Lyndee Cudmore for two hours of biology and anatomy; and Amanda Stinnett for one hour of world geography.
The board approved school handbooks that include three changes. The DCA classwork policy was added after discussion with teachers about students not getting assignments completed before leaving for school activities and then getting behind in their work. It makes students absent for a school activity responsible for acquiring assignments from teachers prior to the date they will be absent and attempting to complete the work by the time they return to school.
The second policy was created to allow the opportunity for transferring students to maintain the honors credits they were on track to receive at their previous school.
The final change is removal of the cheerleading policy at the request of the cheerleading sponsor. No other activity had a specific policy outlined in the handbook.
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