Students recognized at NSB meeting
ROSSTON – Nevada’s lunchroom will be getting a new serving table over the Christmas holidays.
The Nevada School Board was informed of this at its November meeting Tuesday night. Superintendent Rick McAfee said he and the lunchroom supervisor applied for a grant for a new service table and the grant was approved. The district’s existing service tables are 30-years-old, but still working, he said. The new station will cost $12,665 and be paid for with the grant.
It will be put in place over the Christmas holidays and provide students with chill and hot stations when they return in January.
The board also recognized four students as Students of the Month for October and November. October’s students were Jonah Stanford for Nevada Elementary School and Rayveon Blakeley for Nevada High School. For November, the NES student was Wes Cornelius, while the NHS student was Braydon Bennett.
NHS Principal Jason Arrington said the NES Christmas program is set for 9 a.m. on Dec. 12 in the gym. For NES, he said, incentives have been implemented for semester tests to do better. For each section of the ACT Aspire a student passed, they received a “magic pass”. In all, he said, 100 students earned 240 “magic passes” to be exempt from semester tests.
Seniors, however, posed another problem as they don’t take the ACT Aspire test. Instead, seniors scoring 21 or higher on the standard ACT test were exempt from semester tests. Arrington said six seniors qualified for this.
The board was also reorganized as this was the first meeting following the school elections. Jerry Bishop is president this year, with Nelwin Almand vice president. Todd Brown is the secretary/treasurer.
McAfee said a group will be traveling to attend a National Safety Conference, where they will be interacting with representatives from schools where nine of the last 11 school shootings occurred. They will learn what was done right and what went wrong, along with participating in an active shooter drill. This is being done with a grant.
The board was presented a school calendar for 2020-21, but told no action could be taken until teachers had a chance to go over it and offer suggestions for changes. Basically, though, next year’s calendar is the same as this years, with only the dates changing.
The board agreed to do written evaluations for the superintendent and address them at the December meeting, which will also be an in-service for the board as a representative from Stephens, Inc. will be on hand to help the board get three of its six hours of in-service required. the meeting will begin with a dinner at 5:30 p.m.
