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Vol. 34 No. 7
FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2023
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Schools plot future courses Curriculum presentation details programs for the year ahead Second, students’ choices will be expanded with new courses, many of them electives. And Rockville Centre Schools third, on the elementary level, Superintendent Matt Gaven said the district hopes to provide that based on feedback collected more challenging coursework from parents, teachers and stu- that will align across all five eledents over the past mentary schools. s i x m o n t h s, t h e “With those three school is prepared to themes in mind, we roll out new curricuwanted to make lum and program sure, as we designed recommendations our curriculum for next year. offerings this year, “Our goal this that we maintain a evening is to outline high expectation,” some of the proGaven said last Friposed changes to day. “That is the key. course offerings and What has made curriculum that are Rockville Centre a historically robust great place is that and academic pro- MAtt GAVEN maintenance of a grams already hap- RVC schools high expectation for pening,” Gaven said our students.” superintendent at a presentation to To give students the Board of Educamore opportunities tion on Feb. 3. to learn about computer science, Based on the results of the robotics and engineering, the disdistrict’s “climate survey” and trict has proposed a K-through-12 additional outreach efforts with approach to build on to existing PTA groups and others, the programs at the elementary school administration targeted level, and to offer more courses three areas in which the district in coding, robotics, computercould improve. assisted design, 3D printing and First, the proposed curricu- engineering at all grade levels. lum will aim to increase rele- T h i s w i l l i n cl u d e a n ew vance by adding courses that will teach students real-world skills. Continued on page 16
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RICHARD lAzEVNICk, lEFt, of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 145 in Lynbrook, with Tim Daly, of the American Legion Riders in Elmont, who rode his motorcycle to Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre for the Four Chaplains ceremony.
American Legion ceremony honors the Four Chaplains By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
To honor the sacrifice of four U.S. Army chaplains who died on board the SS Dorchester during World War II, American Legion Post No. 303 and local clergy members gathered at Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre last Sunday for an interfaith ceremony. The SS Dorchester was carrying 904 American troops as it embarked toward Green-
land in February 1943. In the middle of the night on Feb. 3, the ship was struck by a torpedo fired by a Ger man U-boat. As the Dorchester began to sink, the four chaplains on board helped the soldiers board the lifeboats, and gave up their life jackets so that others would survive. The four chaplains — Methodist minister the Rev. George L. Fox, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, Catholic priest Father John P. Washington
and Refor med Church in America minister the Rev. Clark V. Poling — locked arms and recited prayers as they went down with the ship. “They were four brothers with the same father who went down together as one,” Nassau County American Legion Chaplain Eric Spinner said. Only 230 of the men aboard the Dorchester survived. In total, 672 died as a Continued on page 11
or us, it was really important to show the community that we listened.