Warsaw School Board Reviews Graduation Options
April 28, 2020 at 1:04 a.m.
Warsaw School Board Reviews Graduation Options
By Jackie [email protected]
Dani Barkey, assistant superintendent of secondary education, said WCS has formed a graduation taskforce consisting of select senior students, parents, school board members and Warsaw Community High School faculty. The taskforce surveyed seniors to give them more of a voice of what was going on, and the main thing seniors didn’t want to be short-changed on was having an in-person graduation ceremony.
Three possible scenarios were thought up, but Barkey said the plans are pending with “the governmental agencies that are giving us the permission to do these sorts of things.”
The first scenario would be an in-person graduation ceremony on June 5.
“It would look a little different,” Barkey said, saying the ceremony would enact social distancing. “We would use our football field to do that.”
Appointments would be made with students so they can have their pictures taken, she said.
Plan B would be that the school corporation would have an in-person graduation on July 17.
In both of the first two scenarios, Barkey said the school corporation would probably plan a time on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday so they could have options that worked that weekend for graduation.
If the school corporation could not hold an in-person graduation, plan C would be to have a digital graduation on July 17.
Barkey said in the meantime, details will be fleshed out.
The school board also approved the appointment of a new member to its building corporation.
Cassie Rowland was appointed to the building corporation after Dr. Lee Harman chose to step down.
“Each school corporation has to have a building corporation,” said WCS Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert.
The building corporation is the board that can say the school corporation can move forward with a building project.
April Fitterling, chief financial officer, said the building corporation is a three-member board that signs off on taking on leases or debt for the school corporation because the school corporation can only carry so much.
“The school board has full power, not the building board,” Fitterling said, saying it’s just a formality. They can’t create or hold up any projects.
Hoffert said WCS currently has three members on its building corporation, including Scott Tucker from Maple Leaf Farms, dentist Dr. Steven Hollar and Harman.
Dani Barkey, assistant superintendent of secondary education, said WCS has formed a graduation taskforce consisting of select senior students, parents, school board members and Warsaw Community High School faculty. The taskforce surveyed seniors to give them more of a voice of what was going on, and the main thing seniors didn’t want to be short-changed on was having an in-person graduation ceremony.
Three possible scenarios were thought up, but Barkey said the plans are pending with “the governmental agencies that are giving us the permission to do these sorts of things.”
The first scenario would be an in-person graduation ceremony on June 5.
“It would look a little different,” Barkey said, saying the ceremony would enact social distancing. “We would use our football field to do that.”
Appointments would be made with students so they can have their pictures taken, she said.
Plan B would be that the school corporation would have an in-person graduation on July 17.
In both of the first two scenarios, Barkey said the school corporation would probably plan a time on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday so they could have options that worked that weekend for graduation.
If the school corporation could not hold an in-person graduation, plan C would be to have a digital graduation on July 17.
Barkey said in the meantime, details will be fleshed out.
The school board also approved the appointment of a new member to its building corporation.
Cassie Rowland was appointed to the building corporation after Dr. Lee Harman chose to step down.
“Each school corporation has to have a building corporation,” said WCS Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert.
The building corporation is the board that can say the school corporation can move forward with a building project.
April Fitterling, chief financial officer, said the building corporation is a three-member board that signs off on taking on leases or debt for the school corporation because the school corporation can only carry so much.
“The school board has full power, not the building board,” Fitterling said, saying it’s just a formality. They can’t create or hold up any projects.
Hoffert said WCS currently has three members on its building corporation, including Scott Tucker from Maple Leaf Farms, dentist Dr. Steven Hollar and Harman.
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