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Vol.10 • Issue 11
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Thursday, March 14 • 2013
City crews careful, postpone Pets now may get first aid care park work to get it right they deserve See Page A2 See Page A7
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A pair of delegations got the proceedings underway for the regular board meeting of School District #20, Columbia-Kootenay on March 11 at the Blueberry Community School. Presentations dealing with “School Success Plans” began with Stanley Humphries Secondary
School (SHSS) principal Nathan Robinson and vice-principal Patrick Kinghorn talking to the Board about “Voice and Choice” – a provincial directive designed to better serve the needs and wants of students. Using a video featuring an upbeat funky soundtrack, the men outlined a number of objectives being pursued at the secondary school.
A major strategy is the creation of programs designed to engage students in positive, constructive action. “This could mean (lunch-time) dancing,” suggested Robinson, “and if there’s 100 in the gym there’s 100 fewer in the halls.” It was mentioned that out of all the grade 8 kids who arrive, many don’t graduate from SHSS.
Robinson did not use that statement to imply a lot of failures, he said, only that a lot of students move on to different situations between grade 8 and graduation, and that a concerted effort of tracking these learners was underway. The school administration, according to Robinson and Kinghorn, is excited by the many ideas and initiatives being cultivated.
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“We can do better,” said Robinson later, “so we can better serve our student population and ensure they’re getting the services they need, and having the voice in their education so they can have a positive experience and want to stay engaged, stick around and graduate.” The vice-principal weighed in as well. “We have noon-
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hour activities for the kids. There are teachers as well who have clubs going on after school. We’d rather not have the kids standing around, we’d like them active and having adults interacting with them. There’s a lot of external things out there that sometimes aren’t as productive and positive.”
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