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I am in complete agreement that ALC needs a better home, and the idea of moving it to Rollingstone is certainly worth discussing. The Big O would be quite suitable for Admin., but at this time I remain adamantly opposed to moving Community Ed./ECFE/ECSE out of Lincoln. At 08:11 PM 1/31/02, Larry Laber wrote: >The past week or so Brant and I have been looking into the Area Learning >Center independently as well as jointly. You are aware of some of the >concerns, the buildings are overflowing, community relations problems, law >enforcement problems etc etc. > >I sat in on a meeting with Dr. Hannon, Deb Moe, Chief Pomeroy and other >law enforcement people last week concerning the student s behavior outside >of the building itself. A closed campus appears to be the best way to >address this. Because of the cramped quarters, this would be difficult if >not impossible. There have been numerous suggestions on where to move this >program. One thought was to move it to the Senior High School in the >industrial arts wing. Brant and I talked to Senior High administrators >about that today. They were able to show us that this space would not be >available. The physical space and bringing some of the behavior problems >back into overcrowded class sizes is not the answer. The discussion went >on about discipline being key to changing the behavior pattern of a number >of these students. Discipline at a higher level than is administered now >is impossible without a closed campus and an administrator on site to deal >with these problems as they occur. > >With that in mind, perhaps we could use the school board list serve over >the next several days to see where each board member wants to go with >this. I would start out the discussion with a recommendation that the ALC >program be moved to Rollingstone. It would be a closed campus and a large >percentage of the students would be bused to the site, keeping them there >for the full school day. We have a few that are not adapting to the Big O >atmosphere and could very well be less accepting to Rollingstone. I >maintain we have too many kids that want to learn to be spending precious >resources on individuals that go out of their way to defeat any attempt on >teachers trying to teach them. > >We have started the process for moving the administration out of Lincoln >School. Whereever admin lands, it needs to be for an extended period of >time. In my mind, any of the elementary schools, Middle School or the >Senior High School is not a good fit. The school district owns the Big O >cheap. It would be the easiest of all the buildings we have broached to >retrofit for offices. Consider moving Eric and company here. Parking is >adequate. Public visibility is good. What do the rest of you think??? Fred Petersen Winona Area School Board RR 1 Box 114 Winona, MN 55987 507/689-2657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------- This message was sent to the School Board of Winona Area Public Schools. To send a message to the entire School Board, address it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All messages sent to that address are viewable by the general public. A public archive of emails sent to and exchanged between school board members is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
