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 Members of the Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council pose for photo outside the classroom earlier this year. To date, the group has raised nearly $2,300 in which they have donated to various local and area organizations throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Photo provided By KRISTA HAYES
Staff Writer
With the end of the school year nearing, Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council members are hoping to end their term on a positive note.
During the school year, the school government raised nearly $2,300 for various local and area organizations.
“Each year, we try and raise as much money as we can for various clubs and organizations that we vote on and decide to help support at the beginning of the school year,” Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council President Neal Maxson said.
Elected a Student Council representative of his homeroom, Maxson, a seventh-grade student, said this is his second year serving on the council. This year as president, his main responsibility is to set forth an agenda and preside over the group’s monthly meetings which are held the first and third Thursday of each month.
“I joined the Student Council because I was looking for a new activity to do and thought it’d be challenging experience,” Maxson said. “Politics have always been one of the things to stick out in my head and when I grow up, I want to be a lawyer.
“Overall, as president I think I have done a pretty good job,” he said. “Being president is a lot harder than what I thought it would be since I have to make the agendas, run the meetings, and keep the advisers in the loop. I have the whole weight of the council on my shoulders, and at times it can get frustrating, but I would recommend it to all the kids coming to the middle school next year because it’s a fun activity to be involved in.”
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Board spurs talk on cell phone use |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Assistant Managing Editor
Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education members Tuesday approved a broad list of board policy updates including policies dealing with the Family Medical Leave Act, electronic equipment and investments.
Other items included facility security, video surveillance and electronic monitoring, the district Web page, e-mail, student records and a state mandated Special Education Model of Policies and Procedures.
“There are no dramatic changes, nothing major,” Wapakoneta City Schools Superintendent Keith Horner said.
One topic on the list of updates that spurred some discussion was the use of wireless communication devices, but the board policy updates are rather general with issues addressed more specifically in building and student handbooks, Horner said.
Wapakoneta High School Principal Aaron Rex said the policy has always been to keep cell phones turned off and in lockers, but he said if they are not seen out administrators aren’t going to go looking for them, especially as some students have expressed concerns about leaving them in shared lockers.
“We’re not staring at kids’ pockets to see if they have one in there,” Rex said. “The only time there is trouble is if it rings in class or if they are caught texting in class.”
Horner said for the school administrators to police the policy is not really possible so the focus is keeping them out of sight.
In other business, board members amended its depository contracts from 2006 to include money for the building project as the original resolution was dated before the building project was approved, said District Treasurer Susan Rinehart.
Included in depositories are J.P. Morgan Chase, First National Bank in New Bremen, Minster Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Star Ohio, Provident Bank, Multi-Bank Securities and Huntington National Bank. The aggregate maximum amount of its inactive deposits of public money at any time is $32,000.
The following donations were accepted, $2,000 from Wal-Mart for the football field turf, more than $4,000 from Lange Photographics for picture commissioners for all five district schools, and $360 from the Breakfast Optimist Club for the middle school sixth-grade trip to the Lima Symphony Orchestra.
Board members approved the following personnel matters:
• Joretta Hayes as Wapakoneta Middle School basketball cheerleading adviser and Bill Dellinger as Wapakoneta Middle School wrestling coach, and volunteer winter coaches, Christy Steinke, Wapakoneta High School varsity girls basketball, Andrew Healy, Wapakoneta Middle School boys basketball, and Stephen Rostorfer, boys bowling.
• Supplemental positions, including, fifth-grade quiz bowl Tracy Haag; sixth-grade quiz bowl Marilyn Shaw; Student Senate Dawn Rankin and Marilyn Shaw; Power of the Pen Dawn Rankin; fifth-grade team captains Marilyn Shaw, Mary Ellen Fry and Vickie Sawmiller; sixth-grade team captains Paula Quatman, Sheri Place and Michelle Roediger; and seventh-grade team captains Teresa Riffle, Anne Niemeyer and Todd Crow.
• Jeanna Shaner as a bus driver at a rate of $15.87 per hour, four hours a day, 188-day calendar, beginning Oct. 10.
• Employed seven substitute teachers, one substitute paraeducator, six substitute custodians and one substitute bus driver.
• Nine leaves of absence.
Board members met in executive session to discuss employment and negotiations.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 October 2009 )
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