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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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St. Joe’s stays open
Friday, 13 February 2009
By ANDREA POTEET
Staff Writer
St. Joseph Catholic School in Wapakoneta is to remain open next school year, a school official says.
St. Joseph School Principal Ron Fahncke told the Wapakoneta Daily News Thursday that officials with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati issued a ruling last week that the school would remain open for the next school year.
“We’re very excited,” Fahncke said.
A study team appointed by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk filed a report last week on the viability of the school, after it failed to enroll the 70 students it promised by the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year.
Sixty students were enrolled for that school year.
Fahncke said a letter passed down from the archdiocese indicated the school would be open for the next year, but it did not mention the school’s status for future years.
He said no decisions have been made yet regarding changes to the school for next year, but representatives from the archdiocese are to visit the school and to work with the school’s administration on possible changes.
“We’re taking it one step at a time,” Fahncke said. “We realize we might very well be in a transition period until the variables are worked out.”
Fahncke said he thinks the certification of the teachers, the level of religious education, the status of the school’s finances and the support of the parish and the community factored into the decision to keep the school open.
The study team looked at factors including income, revenue, and expenses of the school, as well as demographics of the are and interest in the school from residents of surrounding communities.
The school had held preliminary registration, asking parents to verbally pledge their child would attend the school next year. A formal registration is not yet scheduled, but Fahncke said a registration rally is forthcoming.
Fahncke said he hopes the announcement encourages parents to enroll their children in the school.
St. Joseph first grade teacher Joyce Johnson said she and her students were “ecstatic,” to hear they could return to the school in the fall.
“For some reaosn, I just always had faith that this would happen,” Johnson said. “I’m thrilled and I’m looking forward to watching St. Joseph grow.”
Last Updated ( Friday, 13 February 2009 )
 
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