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Middletown is “ready for some change”
Most people are ready to support new ideas in Middletown City Schools.
Community members and school staff who participated in several community forums held in September to gather input for the schools superintendent search put their support behind ideas to start new initiatives to improve the school.
The Middletown Board of Education will hear all the details from those sessions from search consultant Barry Rowland during a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12.
Board President Greg Tyus said there will also be a time for public comment during the meeting.
Participants in the special sessions were asked to give their ideas on what Middletown schools should stop, start and continue doing to be the best it can be. They then voted on which ideas they thought were most important.
“One thing is clear - people are ready for some change and willing to support it,” Rowland wrote in a report to the school board.
According to the report, the majority of votes focused on things relating to discipline and decision making.
When votes were tallied…
the administrators focus group had the most votes in the stop category under “conversing about discipline instead of student achievement.” In the start category, the top vote getter was “moving kids from compliance to true engagement.” And in continue, administrators voted for keeping a focus on data.
Volunteers and parents voted to stop “having rules not enforced,” start communication and continue “to promote and be open to different types of learning.”
Staff voted to stop “keeping uncontrollable students in the building/classrooms,” start having full-time nurses, physiologists and social workers in all buildings, and continue special classes like fine arts.
Businesses and community members said the school should stop “ignoring problems without analyzing root problems and a plan to make changes,” start supporting teachers on discipline matters and continue a focus on academic achievement and character building.
Students put their focus on things like doing away with uniforms and eliminating hall monitors and continuing advanced classes at the high school.
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