BUCYRUS–On Monday evening, the Wynford Board of Education held its monthly meeting.
The student athletic handbook was approved, which included the details for the heavily discussed study table.
If a student-athlete has a ‘D’ or lower based on weekly grade checks within each quarter, they will be required to attend the study table to receive help with the class until the grade is a ‘C’ or higher.
Should a student-athlete miss or skip a study table, they will face a consequence set by each athletic season’s coach, equivalent to the consequence should they skip a practice.
Coaches will submit their consequences before the season to be approved and will enforce the consequence.
Middle school principal Brent Konkle gave a short presentation on the eighth grade’s recent trip to Washington D.C. with stops at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Dulles, The Air Force Memorial, Iwo Jima Marine Corps Memorial, Army museum, the top of the Washington Monument, around the White House, around the Tidal Basin viewing the Jefferson, FDR, and MLK memorials, Arlington National Cemetery, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Museum, and visits around the Korean, Vietnam, WW II, and Lincoln Memorials. d
The board approved this year’s graduating class list for graduation this Saturday night at 8 p.m., pending they meet all state and local requirements.
The board also approved the 2024-2025 school calendar and amended the 2023-2024 calendar to make February 16, 2024, a teacher in-service/data day.
Lunch and breakfast prices were approved at one dollar and ninety cents for elementary and middle/high school breakfasts and two dollars and fifty cents for adult breakfast. Elementary lunch prices are three dollars, and twenty cents, middle/high school lunch prices are three dollars and fifty cents, and adult lunches are four dollars and thirty cents.
General school fees were set at eight dollars for students K-12 and class dues of ten dollars for grades 9-12 for the 2023-2024 school year.
The board accepted donations of 630 dollars to go to preschool fees; 100 dollars from Patricia Neff to the Wynford Choir Fund; forty dollars from Dale and Joan Wolfe to the Wynford Choir Fund; donation of materials valued at one hundred and five dollars to repair the Royal Woods bridge by Sally Ruth; eight pots of coffee, cups, cream, and sugar from Flour & Whisk valued at 200 dollars; and a donation of labor for embroidering by Leah Hartschuh valued at 1700 dollars.
During open board discussion, board member Mark Johnson discussed the need for a different solution to the net between the baseball and softball fields to stop foul balls from flying onto the other fields. He said that at a game he attended recently, twelve foul balls left the baseball field, and nine landed on the softball field while a game was being played.
The middle school girls’ 4×100 and 4×800 set N10 meet records at the junior high N10 meet. The 4×800 team consisted of Allie Bessinger, Olivia Hensel, Brooklyn Stauffer, and Cali Holbrook. The 4×100 team consisted of Caroline Sheldon, Willa Johnson, Maggie Ridge, and Lily Laipply.
The next board meeting is June 20 at 5:30 p.m.