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Thursday, May 22 2008 |
By CHRIS MEYERS
Staff writer
Barring any unforeseen changes to the policy, students at Columbia City High School will not have a time or place to use cell phones starting with the 2008 school year.
The Whitley County Consolidated Schools Board of School Trustees approved the policy Tuesday night by a vote of 5-2.
Students can still have the phones with them, but they can’t be on or used from 8 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Board members Deb Hiss and Tim Bloom voted against the changes, with member Lynn Workman absent from the meeting.
CCHS assistant principal Jennifer Reiff said students can still have the phones in their possession, but they cannot be used during the day.
The school currently has a policy in place where students are allowed to use phones during lunch.
Bloom asked what problems there had been with the current system to result in the change, saying that a few offenses of cheating or unapproved phone calls should not result in the punishment of all students.
“It creates an image that it’s OK to have cell phones and have them turned on during the day,” Reiff said.
She said some students have called friends who are still in class and not yet at lunch, and that some have sent text messages to friends that have answers to tests included in the message.
“I’m not really pro on penalizing everyone,” Hiss said, adding that she often uses her daughter’s lunch time to call her and see how the day is going or to tell her of changes in plans for after school.
Incoming CCHS principal Gregg Goewert said he doesn’t own a cell phone and doesn’t see the need for students to use them at any time of day for any reason.
He said school officials can give students messages from parents if they need to contact them during the day and vice versa.
Goewert said he also favors traditional forms of communication and that parents and students should spend more time talking at the dinner table the night before about plans rather than having to use cell phones or PDAs during the day.
Bloom said the world is moving more and more toward technology as a form of communication and that not much can done to slow the pace.
“The world is headed in a different direction and that direction involves technology,” he said.
Board member Jill Western said she was pleased to see the new policy be put in place, citing changes to the policy made by CCHS administration that go against the overall district policy.
“From my standpoint, we’re returning to what the policy should be,” she said.
In other business, the board honored several retiring teachers and the CCHS principal, while also hiring a new assistant principal for the start of the 2008-09 school year.
Christopher Lagoni’s contract will start Aug. 1 as an assistant principal.
Meanwhile, the board also recognized outgoing principal Steve Doepker, who has spent 40 years in education, eight of which have been with WCCS.
“We do appreciate with greatest sincerity all the effort these individuals put into our school system,” Armstrong said. |
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 |  |  |  |  | | My Mom (Elly Crawford) would always make this Cranberry
Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others
but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for
her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was
this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know
But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote
card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had
always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck
between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I
had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad,
Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and
ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard
me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry
Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl
xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I
think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN) My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made
scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn
but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it
cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN) I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and
dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she
does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for
the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we
call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time
together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas
gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN) |
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