County Hikes Meal Prices
HUNTSVILLE Ñ The Scott County Board of Education dealt with several routine and back-to-school matters here Thursday night, including approval of a price adjustment for cafeteria meals, and approval of a weighted grading policy for Scott High School.
The regular monthly meeting of the board came just five days prior to the first full day of school (Tuesday) in the County School System.
The new price schedule for cafeteria meals will see elementary school students paying $1.00 for lunch and 75¢ for breakfast. The price of a breakfast for adults is $1. High school studentsÕ meals now cost $1.25, and the adult price is $2.00. Visitors can eat lunch in the school cafeterias for $3.
The new weighted grading policy for Scott High is designed to attract a larger number of students for certain advanced level courses in the Science Department (Biology II, Chemistry and Physics), Math Department (Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, Calculus and AP Calculus), and English Department (Advanced English III, Advanced English IV, Dual Credit Comp I and Dual Credit Comp II).
The grading scale for these class will be: A - 4.5 to 5.0; B - 3.5 to 4.0; C - 2.5 to 3.0; and D - 1.5 to 2.0.
In other business Thursday night, the board accepted bids for refinishing gym floors (Prater), Chain link fence for Burchfield School (Byrd Fencing), portable bleechers for Burchfield (Shafer and Shafer), and football field lighting for Burchfield (High Point Electric).
The board also adopted the attendance policy for Scott High; approved the creation of a halftime English teaching position at Scott High; approved a School Administration/Parental Engagement policy at the recommendation of the Tennessee School Boards Association; and approved a working agreement between the school system and the Tennessee Technology Center.
Director of Schools Mike Davis announced that the Huntsville Gym is nearing completion and would be ready to use by the start of school; that a new two-way communication system had been established for a number of the systemÕs buses (and others would be added later); that the Huntsville School site is to be utilized for the Boys & Girls Clubs after-school program again this school year; and that this yearÕs inservice/professional development for county school teachers was the best he had seen in 32 years in the field of education.
The board also heard reports school principals, and a five-minute address by former Scott High Principal Larry Letner, who lambasted board members for, among other things, failure to take action on removal of a dumpster on the school campus, failure to deal with what he said was the presence of Òtoxic fumesÓ in a storage room at the school, and to take action on his repeated request that a student be dropped from the rolls for nonattendance. Letner said he was a part of an organizing coalition of citizens which he hoped to be comprised of around 2,000 registered voters Òby election time.Ó
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