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Parkway revises 2011-2012 school calendar Tandy told the board there are three reaBy MARCIA GUCKES Parkway School District now has a sons to close schools on Good Friday, April slightly different calendar for next school 6, 2012. First, another day is subtracted from the year than had previously been published. The school board at its meeting on May second semester by making Good Friday a 4 approved a revision to the 2011-2012 day off school. Second, Tandy told the board the change school calendar. The major changes come in the dates not only helps balance the school calendar of winter break and the addition of Good but also saves the district money. He said that over the past three years, the district Friday as a day off school. Parkway Director of Communications has had to hire almost five times the normal Paul Tandy told the board that one of the number of substitute teachers on Good goals for the revision was to more evenly Friday at a cost of about $20,000. “The substitute pool has run out the past balance the semesters. The original 2011-2012 calendar gave couple of years and we’ve had to deny the first semester 86 days and second some requests for leave because we didn’t semester 92 days. The revision resulted have the subs,” Tandy said. According to Tandy, the district hired in a first semester of 87 days and a second 190 substitutes on Good Friday as comsemester of 90 days. The revised calendar added one day to the pared to an average of 40 substitute teachfirst semester by moving the start of winter ers per day. Finally, Tandy said a reason to close break to Dec. 23, 2011 instead of Dec. 22, 2011. Meanwhile, the revised calendar schools on Good Friday is because over subtracted a day from the second semester the past three years, student attendance on by changing the last day of winter break to Good Friday dropped from an average rate of 95 percent to 90 or 92 percent. Jan. 4, 2011 instead of Jan. 3, 2011.
Keeping it Clean Girl Scout Troop 4118 and members of Girls on the Run, from Pond Elementary and Wildwood Middle in the Rockwood School District, recently teamed up to volunteer to clean up Route 100 in Wildwood as part of the Adopt-A-Highway program. Girls on the Run is a 12-week program designed to help young girls Pictured are members of Girls on the Run and Girl Scout Troop tackle issues of self- 4118 from Pond Elementary and Wildwood Middle cleaning up esteem, bullying and Route 100 in Wildwood. standing up for themselves. “The girls in Girls on the Run also volunteer with different projects, which is how they got involved with the Adopt-A-Highway program,” said Laurie Luck, a parent volunteer who started the Girls on the Run program at Pond Elementary. “They all seemed so excited about it, and I’m ecstatic that they felt good about it. The icing on the cake was when a driver stopped us and thanked us for our hard work. “I think I grow more than the kids do; it’s been so rewarding.” Each year for the next three years, Luck said, the girls will clean up the highway as part of their community service project. They plan also to collect clothes for recent tornado victims. Amy Klopstein, a teacher at Wildwood Middle School, serves also as a Girls on the Run coach. Pictured are members of Girls on the Run and Girl Scout Troop 4118 from Pond Elementary and Wildwood Middle cleaning up Route 100 in Wildwood.