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Home My WebLink About1975-04-28-SC-min Page 114 April 28, 1975 The regular meeting of the Lexington School Committee came to order at 8: 00 p. m. at the Jonas Clarke Jr. High School. Pres ent were Mesdames Berchtold and Swanson. Messrs. Rotberg, Wachmand and Wadsworth_ Alno nresent rC is M _.i o. 1. '."P.y.3, MatTnnas, ri»'l c, Dr, IG'.J..:,rt and Cummings. The minutes of April 15, 1975 were discussed and, it was VOTED: To accept then e minutes as amended. (Brown, Swanson, Unanimous). MINUTES 4/15/75 Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, it was VOTED: To accept the Schedule of Payments as presented. (Swanson, Brown, Unanimous) (See next page) SCHEDULE OF • PAYMENTS Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, it was VOTED: To accept the resignation of Roberta P. Deemer as of 6/30/75. (Swanson, Brown, Unanimous). PERSONNEL CHANGES (certificated) On April 15, Mr. Sam Nablo and the Citizens Advisory Committee presented an interim report on the reassignment of pupils. Please refer to April 15 minutes . The committee returned this evening to take part in a general discussion regarding the report. CAC INTERIM REPORT Mr. Paul Rempfer took the opportunity to give an analysis of busing implications for elementary schools in the event of school closings. If the one mile criteria is used, approximately 483 additional students will be bused by 1980. Statistics were not available but it was his feeling that most of these students live within the 1 1/3 mile limit. He gave the school committee a breakdown of the number of students at each school who would be involved in busing or walking to other schools. Following this analysis, a page by page review of the report was conducted by Mrs. Berchtold with Mr. Noble and Mr. Rempfer clarifying areas of concern. Mr. Nablo said it woul.:i take approximately 100 manhours to do the report again. Renovation information for the schools can be added to it. • He felt the most useful feature of this report was the rational way the .districts were designed. The final report will be -submitted in two weeks Mrs . Berchtold read a letter dated 4/16/75 from a group of parents regarding the proliferation of fund raising projects in which elementary and Jr. High School students are asked to take part. Some of these projects include selling products door-to-door in the community. The letter puctstioned the educationalvalue of such procedures and commented Page 115 Rp:_il 28, 1975 Aaril1 , �;.7; essomal o"i1 124G , 75 17,7 1 Athletics April 24, 1575 Bill Schedule 525 127,40 Out of State Travel April 24, 1975 Dill Schedule ,r27 610.87 Vocational ca-tion April 24, 197; Transportation #13V 198.00 April 21 , 1975 Tuition r11-V 147.10 Adult Education April 25, 1975 Professional Payroll 273.60 DriverEducation April 25, 1975 Professional Payroll 6885.00 Steci _ Programs (Pon-Iexin. -ton Funds) Title ITI Learning Disabilities Train-Inc- Film Project April 25, 1='25 Professional Payroll 1,025.08 April 24, 1975 Lill Schedule 03 58.76 IAP =re-Vocational Life Care Prozram April. 25, 1975 Professional Payroll 657 oL 'Y'Os e55_O___ .��; "^C2 Kern 25, 1975 Professional Payroll 4 ,850.07 Autistic _ ram (Arlin_ton) aril 25, 1975 Professional Payroll 8 1,53C 25. :6 April 21-, 1975 Bill Soheudlee 1,11,x' 85,77 Autistic u-,.ocran (Lexington) Lexington) April 25, 1975 P o_essional Payroll 654,54 !-. , l . P=Alt1-r22:'_iGaLJ'P-Ci �, L;:�_1_^r-{;O"=.) April 25, 19:25 Professional Pal roll 949.9c. A=11 75, 1975 7111 Schedule ,f10 - 6228,20 Page 116 April 28, 1975 on the spirit of commercialism and the value of consuming that is being conveyed through these .money-making enterprises. The school committee was as ked to explore thes e practices carefully and s et guidelines as to their l _ ;„_. The ___t _ was signed by :Cr. and MrsNorman, Daggdtt, Mr. an,. _';lrs. S'eph:mCarter, M.o. andMrs . Francois des _.1iiz and Mrs. George Gordon. FUND RAISING • PROJECTS (cont` Dr. Fobert noted that students have us ed fund raising methods as mentioned in the letter for quite some time. He then reviewed the current policy which relates only to collections within the schools. The committee explored the value of allowing students to participate in door-to-door selling enterprises, The distinction between field trips and excursions, costs of projects without extra funding and staff involvement were discus sed. Mrs. Berchtold said the question at hand was whether the school committee was going to condone sending children into the community to sell products door-to-door. The projects. themselves were not criticized. Mrs . Swanson said that teaching youngsters to work and earn for extras is a good thing which she would not want to discourage. Alan Wachman said he had been involved in many fund rais ing projects and, in his opinion, he derived no educational benefits from any of them. Mr. Rotberg asked if we could initiate a study to determine what has and has not been approved regarding fund.raising projects at the elementary and Jr. High School level. Mr. Wadsworth felt that guidelines should be set once the information is received. Dr. Fobert said the information will be available before the end of June. Mrs. Berchtold read a letter from William J. Scouler, Acting Chairman of the Standing School Building Committee. Mr. Scouler asked the school committee to formally accept Bowman at this time. A question was raised about what will happen to the $6318. 65 which remains under Article 7 if BOWMAN the school committee votes its acceptance. The school committee agreed SCHOOL to delay voting on this matter until further information is received. ACCEPTANCE Dr. Lars Guidager reviewed a memo to Dr. Fobert dated 2/6/75 in which he described screening methods to identify students who might have special needs. The screening was based on the following existing data: 1. Eighth grade Iowa tes ting. 2. Surveys carried out by special needs staff. 3, List of students who failed one or more tours es and/or had poor attendance in the second quarter. 4. List of referrals to the reading center. • 0 5. Study by a readings specialist. These lists P broadly cover uizcer- achievers, emotional problems and learning problems. • Page 117 April 28, 1975 Students will be assigned to their high school units and those with problems will be quickly identified. This action will enable them to be elped 1175- bqi mainghigh. s ciao_l , Dr. Guldager agreed with the committee that some changes in the curriculum might be needed but said it is important at this time to service the 1100 students who are not being helped. He has been authorized by Dr. Fobert to contract for additional core evaluations to speed up the screening process. It was VOTED: To adjourn the meeting at 11;-30 p. m. (Swans on, Wadsworth, Unanimous) No Executive Sess ion was held. • Respectfully submitted, Isabelle S. Cummings Recording Secretary