That's the word from superintendent Dwayne Noble Monday night.
Noble told school board members there are 315 students at the high school and 708 enrolled in elementary. When classes ended last May, school officials reported 282 at the high school and 686 in the elementary. He said the middle school enrollment is about the same as last year.
Board members James Williams, Brandi Brown, Jeannie Duncan and Brandi Cunningham spent over an hour in an executive session to discuss hiring two people, visiting with elementary secretary Joyce Henderson and making some pay adjustments. Board member James Cox was not present.
When it was over, they approved naming Caroline Berry as activity fund custodian and Chris Ashby as a bus driver and maintenance person. No comments were made about Henderson. The group did approve making some pay adjustments for the maintenance director, elementary assistant principal and middle school principal.Training from a two-day workshop is expected to help elementary teachers become more effective.
Elementary teacher Ginny Holder told that to board members in a report on the workshop.
She explained she heard about it after a national convention and wanted to get that capability here.
"The special education program provides a system to enable teachers to have cohesiveness in the classroom and share information with other teachers," she said.
Through the program, teachers would no longer have a, "spray and pray," attitude but, "would very scientifically get to see how many minutes we spend in large and small groups."
Holder pointed out the program is being put in place in other schools and now, "we are on the cutting edge for the first time in a long time."