DCHS Basketball Teams Prepare for District Tournament After Losing to Warren County in Regular Season Finale

February 11, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

The DCHS basketball teams completed the 2023-24 regular season at Warren County Saturday but lost both games as they now gear up for the district tournament this week. Details of the tournament to be announced.

The Tigers lost to the Pioneers 62 to 46 while the Lady Tigers were defeated by Warren County 61 to 58.

In the earlier meetings on December 8, the Tigers beat Warren County 61 to 53 while the Lady Tigers won 70 to 59.

The Tigers completed the season at 10-18 overall and 1-9 in the district. The Lady Tigers finish at 9-19 overall and 0-10 in district play.

In the girls game Saturday afternoon, both teams played to a 14 all tie by the end of the 1st period. Warren County led 32 to 31 by halftime and extended their lead to 47 to 42 by the end of the 3rd period before holding off the Lady Tigers in the 4th period enroute to a 61 to 58 win over DeKalb County.
For the Lady Tigers, Ella VanVranken scored 22, Chloe VanVranken and Tess Barton each with 10, Allie Melton 7, Avery Agee 5, and Cam Branin and Brooke Fuson each with 2.

The Tigers played without the services of Senior Conner Close, who was sidelined with an injury. DeKalb County trailed 19 to 10 after the 1st period and 31 to 21 by halftime. Warren County led 46 to 30 after the 3rd period and went on to defeat the Tigers 62 to 46.

Seth Fuson led the Tigers in scoring with 15 followed by Ian Colwell with 12, Dallas Kirby 8, Jordan Parker 7, and Alex Antoniak and Wyatt Carter each with 2.

February 11, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County High School prom will be held Friday, April 12.

During Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting, the Board of Education gave approval for this year’s prom to be held off campus at the Capitol Theater in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, in his monthly personnel report, Director Patrick Cripps announced that the following personnel have been employed since last month:

Kristie Dziekiewicz, Northside Elementary School teacher to replace Megan Humbert.

Serah Mitchell, Smithville Elementary School Educational Assistant to replace Kennedy Polk.

Those granted a leave of absence as requested are Samantha Antoniak and Lori Vandergriff.

February 10, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County High School is changing the requirements for students taking Dual Enrollment Classes.

During the regular monthly meeting Thursday night, the Board of Education approved the request made by the DCHS Administration.

In making the case for the change, DCHS Administrators provided background and a recommendation in the following request presented to the school board which was approved by the board

“Up until 2018, Motlow had specific requirements regarding which students qualified to take dual enrollment classes. These requirements were:

1.3.0 GPA overall unweighted
2.3.0 GPA in their focus area (class taken)
3.ACT benchmarks had to be met in each subject area taken (English 18, Math 22, Reading 22, Science 23)

After the fall of 2018, Motlow only required 10-12th graders to have a 3.0 unweighted GPA to be eligible for dual enrollment classes. 9th graders only were required to take the accuplacer test. Additional requirements fell upon the school district to make. At DCHS, we did not require anything additional while surrounding counties kept more stringent requirements”.

“This past semester (fall 2023) we had 130 students taking dual enrollment classes. Out of these 130 students, 43 students made a C/D/F in a dual enrollment class. We are finding that students are signing up for dual enrollment classes who are not ready for the rigor and responsibility required to be successful in these types of classes”.

“Motlow offers two different grants for their classes. The middle college grant requires students to keep a 3.0 GPA and the dual enrollment grant requires a 2.0 GPA. This year already, we have had around 10 students lose their grant and this cannot ever be regained”.

Request/Recommendation:
“After reviewing requirements from surrounding counties, we would like to request that our Dual Enrollment classes have the following requirements beginning Fall 2024.

1.3.0 GPA overall unweighted
2.3.0 GPA in their focus area (Class taken)
3.Students must earn a minimum composite score of 19 on the ACT or Mock ACT in relevant subject areas:

a. Dual Enrollment Math courses require an ACT sub score of 19 in Math, 19 in Reading, and 18 in English. In order to take Math 1530 or Math 1710, students must have completed Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II.

b. Dual Enrollment Science courses require an ACT sub score of 19 in Science, 19 in Math, 19 in Reading, and 18 in English. In order to take Chem 1110 or Chem 11120, students must have completed High School Chemistry.

c. Dual Enrollment English, History, Psychology, and Speech courses require an ACT sub score of 19 in Reading and 18 in English.

4.As an alternative to having the required ACT scores, students could also take the Accuplacer test through Motlow to be eligible for a DE course.

5.A very motivated student who cannot meet requirement 3 or 4 could be considered if they have a 4.0 average unweighted and a 16 for that ACT sub score”.

Mock ACT and ACT prep classes:

“We believe it is very important to expose students to the ACT test early on to prepare them to do their best their Junior and Senior year. All Juniors and Seniors are currently given the ACT at school (on a school day) at no charge to the student. All freshmen and sophomores are given a mock ACT test in the Spring (the same day the Juniors take the real test). Juniors are then scheduled into an ACT prep class their Junior year if they score a 19 or below on the mock ACT test. Our scheduling allows for most students to have multiple elective classes and we feel like this is an important one for our Juniors to take. Beginning in Fall 2024, the English and Reading portions of ACT prep will be administered through the Junior English course which will be a year-long course. The science and math portions will be quarter classes each (totaling one semester course). All Juniors who do not have a real or mock ACT composite of 19 or higher will be required to take this course unless their schedule does not allow for it (ex. special education students who are also in RTI reading and/or math classes)”.

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