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The final item on the list of goals and objectives is stress on an academic area. After the standardized state test results are received, the , administration will select specific areas for special emphasis.
“I’d like to see stress on academics at the top of the list,” said Chairman Massie, to the superintendent’s nods of assent. “That’s what we’re all about.” In addition to Dr. Gangel’s general objectives, the board in the coming year will address the question of the seven-period day, development of a family life curriculum, and expansion of the foreign language program, Mrs. Massie noted. “We want to make decfsions that will be beneficial to the students ... It can’t be done overnight. It takes planning and coordination.”
In other action at the July meeting, the School Board:
• accepted the recommendation of the two principals on the color schemes for the high school and elementary school, with ivory desk tops and blue, red, tan, or orange chairs at RCHS, and orange, gold, and blue desk chairs at RCES. “Just don’t let me walk into the high school and see orange and red in the same room!” joked Mrs. Massie.
• tentatively set official opening ceremonies for the remodeled and expanded high school for Sunday afternoon the third week of September.
• authorized the demolition of the small brick storage shed at the rear of the high school after Dr. Gangel explained the space is unused and the structure poses a problem in supervising students “who get behind it when they want to do something they don’t want to be seen doing.”
• accepted a bid of $80 per ton for supplying coal next year. A1 Shirley & Son, the current supplier, was the lone bidder on the contract for 1988-89. Noting there were problems last year with the way deliveries were made, Mrs. Massie said the company understands that the School Board expects “good drivers and no damage to our equipment.”
• appointed Molly McCoy Bailey to an elementary school position, and Vicky Eastham as a high school mathematics teacher following an executive session on personnel. The only remaining vacancy is in the high school guidance department, to replace Mary Ann Biggs, who was appointed as the elementary school vice-principal.
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