Sunday, 8 January 2017

Athletes’ Parents Air Grievances at Greenon BOE Meeting

The Greenon Board of Education (BOE) met on May 23 at Indian Valley Media Center to examine consistent business. All BOE individuals, District Superintendent Brad Silvus, and District Treasurer Bradley McKee were available.

The meeting opened with a presentation from Mr. Jim Shaner, the Director of Educational Technology in the Greenon Local School District. Shaner plot distinctive venture thoughts and educational modules choices for Greenon's STEM classes. After discourse about the expenses connected with the proposals, BOE President, Mr. Dennis Henry, prescribed some potential roads of financing for Shaner to investigate and exhibit at the following BOE meeting keeping in mind the end goal to help the Board choose on the off chance that it would acknowledge Shaner's proposals.

Indian Valley fifth grade Science instructor, Kim Ricketts, gave the BOE a short once-over of the work she as of late did with the Dayton Regional STEM Center Fellowship. Ricketts highlighted the "Dally Packs" she and five other colleagues from the STEM partnership created for the Montgomery County ESC. Ricketts clarified that the objective of the packs is to give understudies in evaluations 2-6 a STEM involvement outside of school and inside the profession fields identified with STEM ponders.

Treasurer McKee went over the locale's five-year monetary figure. He likewise highlighted territories on the present spending where things shifted from what was initially anticipated. McKee reported the locale has been sparing cash by upgrading its transport armada. The Board affirmed McKee's suggestion to remove $5,838 from the Hustead Permanent Improvement store to take care of the expenses for Fisher Tracks to repair Greenon's track. BOE individuals likewise affirmed the store of Public Funds with Security National Bank. McKee's ask for to procure Plattenburg CPAs to help with setting up the GAAP budgetary proclamations for the region for the years finishing June 30, 2016, 2017, and June 30, 2018 was additionally endorsed, denoting the first run through the Greenon District will utilize the firm.

Refering to budgetary reasons, Greenon's BOE voted to acknowledge the Superintendent's proposal to diminish the locale's work constrain by disposing of a full-time cook (6 hrs.) position, supplanting it with two 3.5-hour positions and one 3.0-hour cook position. The position of Athletic Secretary was likewise wiped out.

More business concerning a potential building venture was tended to. Since the locale's latest endeavor to get a building venture bond issue fizzled, Greenon has turned into a "slipped by area" with the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC). Because of that, and with an end goal to have more chances to get another bond issue for a building venture on the poll, the BOE voted to send another demand to the OSFC requesting that they set up another extension, an expected venture spending plan, and an expected nearby share measure of the fundamental venture costs for a Classroom Facilities Assistance extend at the October, 2016 Commission meeting.

BOE individuals affirmed the list of Greenon's seniors set to graduate in 2016. The Board voted to restore the region's enrollment in the Ohio High School Athletic Association. They additionally endorsed another, redesigned school timetable for 2016-2017.

Various changes to faculty were endorsed, including demands by Stephanie Lawson, Ann Kent, and Rich Clark for FMLA take off. A remedy was additionally made to a mirror that Ashlee Christopher will be Freshman Cheer Coach for the 2016-2017 school year and will get a stipend of $880.

Silvus declared another group meeting will be held at some point amid the second or third week of June.

The meeting finished with a few guardians of individuals from the GHS Boys' Basketball group and an understudy representative for the GHS Boys' Basketball group approaching to raise worries about the "un-polished skill" and "irritating conduct" of a portion of the GHS Basketball drilling staff. Various guardians informed BOE individuals they were stressed concerning how their children's identities had radically changed amid the b-ball season, with large portions of them getting to be distinctly pulled back, even furious. They additionally voiced worries about the foulness they have heard originating from drilling staff that has been gone for both players and fans. They likewise refered to disdainful remarks the drilling staff has made to players and retaliatory conduct from the instructing staff too.

The group representative brought a rundown of put-downs colleagues say they have persevered, and in addition different cases of uncomfortable, fiery conduct they have been subjected to. One parent even said how not very many of the Basketball players went to GHS Sports Awards Banquet, saying, "The players declined to try and go to the Banquet to get their honors. That is the manner by which uncomfortable they are..." One parent said that regardless of the possibility that their child needed to play the next year, he wouldn't permit it if the instructing staff continued as before, "He adores the amusement, however I can't give him a chance to be subjected to such conduct from his mentor. He doesn't merit that, none of them merit that."

The following consistent Greenon BOE meeting is June 16, 2016 at 7:00pm in the Indian Valley Media Center.

More data about the region can be found at the region's site: http://www.greenon.k12.oh.us/.

Monetary data about the area can be found on the Treasurer's page under the "Offices" tab on the locale's site and at greenonschools.ohiocheckbook.com.

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