December 15, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
The Board of Education on the road!
Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting of the School Board was held at the cafeteria of Smithville Elementary School. The meeting was brief with only routine business transacted.
The Board plans to meet at Northside Elementary School for the January monthly session.
The school board adopted a request from Danny Jenkins to use property behind the high school and middle school, formerly the cross-country track that is no longer being used, for Frisbee Golf.
In other business, the board adopted a SPARC 4.0 Grant Amendment for expenditures in the high school’s vocational program.
In his monthly personnel report, Director of Schools Patrick Cripps announced that educator Lori Vandergiff has been granted a leave of absence as requested.
Cripps also mentioned the heroic acts of two high school students and a bus driver who tended to another student during a medical emergency on a school bus last week.
“We had a medical emergency last week on one of our buses and I want to recognize two students, Jamison Bare and Eli Redmon and our bus driver Mike Merriman for their care and their response in helping a student in need. I just want to say we appreciate their help in that situation,” said Director Cripps.
Consent agenda items were approved including the following: Granting request for the DCHS FFA to attend the State Convention in Gatlinburg, March 24-27, 2024 (Spring Break); granting a request for the DCHS Girls Basketball team to make an overnight trip for tournament play, December 27-29, 2023 at Lynnville; approval of implementation of a Teacher-Driven Dyslexia Screening Tool; and approval of a request from the DeKalb West School Junior Pro program.