The Alternate School

The School Board will vote on the location of the Alternate School at it's next meeting on May 26 (7pm at the District Office). They will choose to either locate the school of 25 high school students to either Nichols where it would be self contained or to Winnequah where the school would share space with 3rd-5th graders.

I just have to wonder what Monona residents are thinking of this? I heard many people stand up and say that they did not want the smallest children of Maywood (pre-K through 2) mixing with the older children of Winnequah (3-5 graders next year). That would put the age ranges of children at 4 years old to 11 years old. Now we are talking about putting 8 year olds with 18 year olds? Haven't parents already said that they don't like this scenario? Is the Board not listening? Or is there something that I am missing?

For the entire story in the Herald Independent, please see http://heraldindependentonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=21&ArticleID=1738

Oh, those Standing Committees....

I got an email today from Susan Fox and she requested that I take down my posting of the Standing Committees until after the Board Meeting on May 26th. Apparently, someone saw my posting this morning and called Ms. Fox to alert her to this. I had no idea that this posting was so controversial when I did it, as I received the email with the committee assignments directly from Ms. Fox. Therefore, in an effort to oblige her, I am accomodating her request. I will repost the assignments after the meeting.