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THE IOLA REGISTER Tuesday, November 12, 2013
SHOW AND TELL
USD 258
Security amped at schools By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — USD 258 schools are prepared to identify and deal with threats to students. John Johnson, high school principal, reviewed security measures and plans to deal with threats on several levels at Monday night’s school board meeting. He said 18 surveillance cameras had been added, making 44 now poised to capture images 24 hours a day, seven days a week and having capability to record and store data for about 30 days. Images currently stored on Johnson’s iPad as well as terminals at school, will stream to Humboldt’s police headquarters. The preponderance of cameras are in the high school, with others in the middle and elementary schools. Some are focused on nearby parking lots. “I think we’re way ahead of the game,” Johnson said. He also said plans to deal with emergency situations, from an unruly student to an intruder, had been developed and were being tweaked. The exact nature of what school officials would do under any circumstances was not divulged. Doing so, Johnson said, might compromise security. He did mention that any See SECURITY | Page A6
By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register
Earl Bell shows photos of his time serving in the Korean War to fifth graders at Lincoln Elementary. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ
Korean War veteran gives glimpse of experience
“My supervising officer said, ‘it is not a rumor, you are going.’ It changed the looks of the men’s faces, we were going to war,” Earl Bell said to a classroom full of fifth graders, with mouths agape. “Were you nervous about going to war,” one of the students asked. “I’d say I was a bit nervous,” Bell replied, with a slight grin. Bell, a Korean War veteran, stopped by Marilyn Bumstead’s 5th grade classroom at Lincoln Elementary Monday morning to give insight into his experiences in the Army.
While the students were intrigued by the dangers of war, much of Bell’s presentation included the positive experiences he had, traveling the globe. Bell, now 84, was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1951 at age 20. He spent time training in Crowder, Mo., and California, and from there he went to anti-aircraft training at Fort Bliss, Texas. “We had to be trained to kill the enemy,” Bell said. “That was our job, but we hoped we wouldn’t have to.” He said the training taught him many things. “We didn’t have marching-instep on the farm,” he said with a laugh. See VETERAN | Page A6
Board changes boundary policies By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
An aerial photo shows the scene after Typhoon Haiyan hit Leyte Province Sunday. The Philippine government disaster relief agency said about 4.4 million people have become homeless in areas hit by super typhoon Haiyan. ZUMA PRESS/MCT
Utter destruction in Philippines MANILA, Philippines — Each story has been more heartbreaking than the last. A 44-year-old high school teacher from the destroyed provincial capital of Tacloban City recounts how she abandoned her dying daughter, stabbed by splinters of their house, which was razed by Friday’s killer Typhoon Haiyan. “‘Ma, just let go. Save your-
self,’” Bernadette Tenegra was quoted as saying by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “I was holding her, and I kept telling her to hang on, that I was going to bring her up. But she just gave up.” Then there was Rogelio Mingig, 48, who instructed his wife to remain at home with their 12-year-old son and year-old daughter because he thought it would be safer. But
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they were trapped by rising flood waters. “We found her embracing the children in one arm and grabbing on to the ceiling with the other,” he told the newspaper. In a televised address on Monday night local time, President Benigno Aquino III declared a “state of national See TYPHOON | Page A2
A new policy allows more flexibility for elementary teachers and administrators in USD 257. The elementary boundary policy change was approved by board of education members at their meeting Monday night. District staff may enroll their own child(ren) in the elementary school in which they work or their home attendance center. The new policy states there are multiple factors in moving students between attendance centers. The policy states that students previously assigned to an attendance center should remain if overcrowding exists in their home attendance center. If there is a new student to the district or from out of the district enrolled in an overcrowded attendance center they will be moved to the attendance center with the least number of students. If the district deems it necessary, siblings may be separated and sent to different attendance centers if they live outside of the boundaries of the larger attendance center.
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Finally, the district or building administrators may draw names from the remaining students who have enrolled within the particular attendance center in order to allow the attendance center to have more equitable class size. The board also approved the purchase of 22 new iPads. Brett Linn, technology director, said the iPads used by 1-to-1 students at Jefferson Elementary no longer fulfill the needs of the curriculum. Due to updates in the program, the current software is outdated. Apple requires all purchases go through them. Board member Darrel Catron suggested Linn look into other technology device alternatives for a cheaper purchase. Superintendent Jack Koehn and Linn said it would be difficult for the students to learn how to use a new device in the middle of the school year. The board members passed Linn’s request and the district will find places to use the older iPads. Charlie Kerr, Iola teacher and FFA adviser, briefly spoke to the board about his See POLICY | Page A6
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