Valley To Continue Issuing ID Cards
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
MENTONE - Students at Tippecanoe Valley High School and Middle School will continue to be issued ID cards for the next school year.
The Tippecanoe Valley School Board approved for the students to continue to use them, but they only have to carry them. Faculty and staff must wear their ID cards.
Jeff France, school safety committee member, said after being asked to review the matter, he contacted several schools in the area. Some schools have them but students only have to carry them or keep them in their lockers.
A majority of schools in the area don't have any ID cards, like Plymouth. Warsaw is the only school corporation where middle and high school students must have them and carry them around at all times. If a Warsaw student loses the ID card, France said the student's parents are billed $5 per card. Valley only charges $3. Some students at Warsaw, France said, run up large bills for lost ID cards.
He also said he talked to Whitko Middle School Principal Jerry Klausing, who previously worked at Fort Wayne Northrop. The ID cards were very difficult to enforce at Northrop, France said Klausing told him. At Whitko, it's still difficult to enforce, but being a small school, Klausing feels comfortable.
At TVHS, Assistant Principal Rod McKee and former Principal Michael Overmyer said they felt comfortable with the students just carrying them around. They are used mostly for the lunch line.
France said he also talked to Warsaw Police Department Chief Steve Foster, who said from his perspective, he'd like all students to wear them in case of a disaster.
Overall, France said the security concerns that caused most schools to require the student IDs has faded a bit. He said he did like Valley's ID cards and their system. "I think the cards are good."
Board Secretary Rod Eaton said safety is not much of an issue now for Valley. He said it didn't shock him that Warsaw has them and requires students to wear them at all times because Warsaw has "all those orthopedic companies so their parents are conditioned" to wear them.
Bryan Murphy, board president, said he thinks Valley still needs them. Hal Hoffman, board member, said he had no problem with students just carrying them around. Murphy made a motion for students to have them, but can carry them around, but staff and faculty must wear them. The motion unanimously was approved.
In other business, the Valley School Board:
• Approved Indy Paving to do paving work near the high school tennis courts for a cost to be negotiated by Superintendent Dr. Daniel Kramer.
• Approved $1,567 to fix six door hinges at the high school.
• Accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence of $10,000 for Jane Hunn. Last spring, Hunn was honored by President George Bush with the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for teaching in these fields. Hunn was the only science winner from Indiana and one of 100 seventh- through 12th-grade teachers nationwide to receive the award.
As the award recipient, Hunn received a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C.
• Approved the volleyball team to travel to the University of Michigan for an overnight stay Thursday.
• Elected Dave O'Brien to remain school board president; Bryan Murphy, vice president; and Eaton, secretary. Appointed Sherri Adamson to serve as corporation treasurer and Linda Murphy as deputy treasurer. The regular school board meetings will continue to be held at 7:30 p.m. on the second Monday of every month.
• Heard a report on Valley's annual yearly progress from Director of Curriculum Angie Miller.
• Approved the plan for use of instructional assistants for 2006-07.
• Approved professional development days for the 2006-07 school year. Dates requested include Oct. 19, Nov. 17 (full day), Feb. 14 and April 20.
• Approved contract with Beaver Dam Pre-School, Area Five Head Start and Kosciusko County Head Start/Cardinal Center.
• Approved conflict of interest statements for Kramer and board member Mark Wise.
• Announced the next meeting dates are July 31, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, budget work session; Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, regular meeting; Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, budget hearing; and Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, regular meeting and budget adoption.
School board members are O'Brien, Murphy, Eaton Hoffman and Wise. [[In-content Ad]]
MENTONE - Students at Tippecanoe Valley High School and Middle School will continue to be issued ID cards for the next school year.
The Tippecanoe Valley School Board approved for the students to continue to use them, but they only have to carry them. Faculty and staff must wear their ID cards.
Jeff France, school safety committee member, said after being asked to review the matter, he contacted several schools in the area. Some schools have them but students only have to carry them or keep them in their lockers.
A majority of schools in the area don't have any ID cards, like Plymouth. Warsaw is the only school corporation where middle and high school students must have them and carry them around at all times. If a Warsaw student loses the ID card, France said the student's parents are billed $5 per card. Valley only charges $3. Some students at Warsaw, France said, run up large bills for lost ID cards.
He also said he talked to Whitko Middle School Principal Jerry Klausing, who previously worked at Fort Wayne Northrop. The ID cards were very difficult to enforce at Northrop, France said Klausing told him. At Whitko, it's still difficult to enforce, but being a small school, Klausing feels comfortable.
At TVHS, Assistant Principal Rod McKee and former Principal Michael Overmyer said they felt comfortable with the students just carrying them around. They are used mostly for the lunch line.
France said he also talked to Warsaw Police Department Chief Steve Foster, who said from his perspective, he'd like all students to wear them in case of a disaster.
Overall, France said the security concerns that caused most schools to require the student IDs has faded a bit. He said he did like Valley's ID cards and their system. "I think the cards are good."
Board Secretary Rod Eaton said safety is not much of an issue now for Valley. He said it didn't shock him that Warsaw has them and requires students to wear them at all times because Warsaw has "all those orthopedic companies so their parents are conditioned" to wear them.
Bryan Murphy, board president, said he thinks Valley still needs them. Hal Hoffman, board member, said he had no problem with students just carrying them around. Murphy made a motion for students to have them, but can carry them around, but staff and faculty must wear them. The motion unanimously was approved.
In other business, the Valley School Board:
• Approved Indy Paving to do paving work near the high school tennis courts for a cost to be negotiated by Superintendent Dr. Daniel Kramer.
• Approved $1,567 to fix six door hinges at the high school.
• Accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence of $10,000 for Jane Hunn. Last spring, Hunn was honored by President George Bush with the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for teaching in these fields. Hunn was the only science winner from Indiana and one of 100 seventh- through 12th-grade teachers nationwide to receive the award.
As the award recipient, Hunn received a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C.
• Approved the volleyball team to travel to the University of Michigan for an overnight stay Thursday.
• Elected Dave O'Brien to remain school board president; Bryan Murphy, vice president; and Eaton, secretary. Appointed Sherri Adamson to serve as corporation treasurer and Linda Murphy as deputy treasurer. The regular school board meetings will continue to be held at 7:30 p.m. on the second Monday of every month.
• Heard a report on Valley's annual yearly progress from Director of Curriculum Angie Miller.
• Approved the plan for use of instructional assistants for 2006-07.
• Approved professional development days for the 2006-07 school year. Dates requested include Oct. 19, Nov. 17 (full day), Feb. 14 and April 20.
• Approved contract with Beaver Dam Pre-School, Area Five Head Start and Kosciusko County Head Start/Cardinal Center.
• Approved conflict of interest statements for Kramer and board member Mark Wise.
• Announced the next meeting dates are July 31, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, budget work session; Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, regular meeting; Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, budget hearing; and Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m., Mentone Elementary, regular meeting and budget adoption.
School board members are O'Brien, Murphy, Eaton Hoffman and Wise. [[In-content Ad]]