Mailbag; Liebel Writes; School Board Meeting Monday Night--Half Day Kindergarten on Chopping Block?

Ed.note; Meeting will be at Thoedore Robinson LMC)SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS
LOCATION of Board Meetings - Theodore Robinson Intermediate School (TRIS) LMC. To find the LMC -park in back of school, off of Fair Street, come in doors by the fieldhouse, turn left and first room on the left is the LMC. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kelly Mosher, 882-3387.




Evansville's stand-alone, half-day kindergarten program is once again on the administration's chopping block. School board policy stands that the program will be offered if 15 families have enrolled by April 1st. Lou Havlik is maintaining the list of families registered, and to the best knowledge of the registrees, we have 15 families currently enrolled.

However, per my converstion with Lou Havlik on March 26th, half-day kindergarten will not continue as a stand-alone program, but start on a pull-out basis in the fall of 2009. Many parents fell this is not the best option for their children.

As you know, Steve Hoffenberg is retiring this spring and a replacement teacher will need to be hired. Many of us feel this may be a stumbling block, plus the $20,000 it costs to run buses for half-day kindergarten students at 11:20am after they are released.

Until we hear the administration's reasons for wanting to eliminate stand-alone half-day kindergarten, we won't know their reasoning. Thus the importance of attending this Monday's school board meeting.

If you would like your voice to be heard, please consider writing an approximately 2 minute speech to read to the school board this Monday, April 13th, at 5:30pm
Here is the meeting schedule:

http://www.ecsdnet.org/site/common/files/brdapr13upda.pdf