Manchester Fifth-Graders Show 'Product' To School Board
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
NORTH MANCHESTER - Tina Bailey, a Laketon Elementary School fifth-grade teacher, brought four foremen Tuesday to Manchester's school board meeting.
Bailey - a self-proclaimed kinetic teacher - shared her class' magazine production leaders with the board.
Kaitlynn French, illustrator foreman and writer, wheeled through the magazine's pages via a laptop. She showed her art work and talked about her responsibilities.
Austin Metzger shared his duties as puzzlist foreman and writer. His job entails record-keeping, writing, creating and researching topics. The magazine has a new topic each week.
Derrek Freshour, the writer's foreman, creates, writes, edits and publishes the final draft. Deadline is Friday at 11 a.m.
"We wrote with our hearts. We didn't care about grammar until Thursday," said Katie Bower, advertising foreman and writer.
The American-themed magazine has four sections: "Tragedy Hits America," "American Sports," "Activity Pages About America" and "Wildlife Across America."
Among the stories and illustrations, Osama bin Laden's face was sketched. The class was offering a $500 million reward for bin Laden, dead or alive.
Bailey's magazine is online at the Manchester School Corp. Web site.
In other business, the board:
• Approved the use of Indiana Bond Bank for 2002 funds. The corporation is planning for payment delays from the state. Back-ups will shove cash flow off course, and, according to Kim Thurston, Manchester's acting superintendent, there will be no payment in June.
Indiana Bond Bank is a "widely used source," said Thurston. Currently, the bank has received fund applications from 99 schools.
Interest rates float between 2.2 and 2.4 percent, said Thurston. He said he did not expect a rate above 2.6 percent.
The board can take $694,000 as a loan amount. If needed, the board can reapply in late summer. The loan amount was based on a cash flow analysis.
• Announced the University Consulting Team's focus group report had arrived.
The next step is "to find out what it all really means to us," said Sally Krouse, school board president. The report is available to the public.
• Heard a policy request from Janice Fuller, a Manchester High School senior's mother, who asked for random drug tests and screenings of high school athletes.
• Scheduled January's school board meetings for Jan. 8 and 22. Febuary's meetings are as usual, the first and third Mondays of the month.
School board members are: president Sally Krouse, vice president Virginia Gunter, secretary Brad Perrott, Thom Frantz, Larry Miller, Todd Speicher, assistant superintendent and acting superintendent Kim Thurston and school corporation attorney Al Schlitt. [[In-content Ad]]
NORTH MANCHESTER - Tina Bailey, a Laketon Elementary School fifth-grade teacher, brought four foremen Tuesday to Manchester's school board meeting.
Bailey - a self-proclaimed kinetic teacher - shared her class' magazine production leaders with the board.
Kaitlynn French, illustrator foreman and writer, wheeled through the magazine's pages via a laptop. She showed her art work and talked about her responsibilities.
Austin Metzger shared his duties as puzzlist foreman and writer. His job entails record-keeping, writing, creating and researching topics. The magazine has a new topic each week.
Derrek Freshour, the writer's foreman, creates, writes, edits and publishes the final draft. Deadline is Friday at 11 a.m.
"We wrote with our hearts. We didn't care about grammar until Thursday," said Katie Bower, advertising foreman and writer.
The American-themed magazine has four sections: "Tragedy Hits America," "American Sports," "Activity Pages About America" and "Wildlife Across America."
Among the stories and illustrations, Osama bin Laden's face was sketched. The class was offering a $500 million reward for bin Laden, dead or alive.
Bailey's magazine is online at the Manchester School Corp. Web site.
In other business, the board:
• Approved the use of Indiana Bond Bank for 2002 funds. The corporation is planning for payment delays from the state. Back-ups will shove cash flow off course, and, according to Kim Thurston, Manchester's acting superintendent, there will be no payment in June.
Indiana Bond Bank is a "widely used source," said Thurston. Currently, the bank has received fund applications from 99 schools.
Interest rates float between 2.2 and 2.4 percent, said Thurston. He said he did not expect a rate above 2.6 percent.
The board can take $694,000 as a loan amount. If needed, the board can reapply in late summer. The loan amount was based on a cash flow analysis.
• Announced the University Consulting Team's focus group report had arrived.
The next step is "to find out what it all really means to us," said Sally Krouse, school board president. The report is available to the public.
• Heard a policy request from Janice Fuller, a Manchester High School senior's mother, who asked for random drug tests and screenings of high school athletes.
• Scheduled January's school board meetings for Jan. 8 and 22. Febuary's meetings are as usual, the first and third Mondays of the month.
School board members are: president Sally Krouse, vice president Virginia Gunter, secretary Brad Perrott, Thom Frantz, Larry Miller, Todd Speicher, assistant superintendent and acting superintendent Kim Thurston and school corporation attorney Al Schlitt. [[In-content Ad]]