School Board
By BEN LEDBETTER
Staff Writer
The Kings Mountain
Board of Education met to
discuss its goals for the new
year which are expected to
be passed at its August
meeting.
School board members
settled on five points to con-
sider at a special meeting
Monday night.
One of the goal possibili-
ties was to achieve expected
growth or better on state
tests.
“I'd like for that to be the
first one,” School Board
Chairman Shearra Miller
said.
Board member Jerry
Blanton suggested adding a
part about advancing the
workforce development pro-
gram at the high school.
Currently the school sys-
tem approved plans for pur-
chasing the Lambeth Rope
property across from the
high school.
Giving more recognition
to students achieving high
on vocational tests was also
mentioned.
Forming a committee to
suggest technical goals was
suggested by board member
Terry McClain.
While settling on current
goals: to be considered,
School Board Vice Chairman
Stella Putnam suggested
removing character educa-
tion as a goal for next year.
Communication was
another possible goal dis-
cussed during the Monday
meeting.
discusses goals for 2002-03
Previously, the board
approved creating a commu-
nity relations position but
those plans have been put
on hold.
One way of increasing
communication was updat-
ing school websites, Board
member Mike Smith said.
“We could put a lot of
stuff on those web sites,” he
said. “There’s so much we're
not taking advantage of.”
Miller said she would like
to see more of the system's
positive news communicat-
ed while Smith said he
would like to see the board
be more responsive to citi-
Zen concerns.
“Personally, I don’t think
we've been to responsive to
public concerns since I've
been on the board,” he said.
Smith said a lot of positive
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things such as school honor
rolls have been communicat-
ed.
Smith and Miller both
mentioned other concerns
toward the end of the meet-
ing.
Miller said she would like
to see more cultural arts
recognition and Smith said
he would like to see more
accountability of people get-
ting in free at high school
football games.
The board met in closed
session at the end of the
meeting and approved the
following personnel list
when it came back to open
session:
Contracts:
Crystal Majors, kinder-
garten, Grover, Tammie
Welch, ex. children, High
School, Lynn Brown, second
grade, Bethware, Donna
Haskett, kindergarten, West,
Susan Underhill, language
arts, Middle School, Richard
Rupp, Technology, Middle
School, Matt Stroup,
Biotecchnology, Middle
School, Casey Goforth, fifth
grade, Intermediate School,
Kim Lowry, Science, High
School.
Classified: Brandy
Hargett, hearing interpreter,
High School, Judy Hawks,
cafeteria/bus driver, Middle
School, Patsy Leigh, cafete-
ria/bus driver, Middle
School, Ted Faris, custodian,
North, Susan Vestal, teacher
assistant, Bethware, Kathy
Bridges, cafeteria/bus driv-
er, Grover.
Resignations: Zoltan
Thornburg, custodian/bus
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driver, Davidson, Tracy
Price, hearing interpreter,
High School, Darlene
Schwantes, fifth grade,
Intermediate School, Angela
Dawkins, teacher assis-
tant/bus driver, Grover,
Dana Smith, fifth grade,
Intermediate School Marie
Morris, science, High School.
Transfers: Amy Ware, first
grade-East to Media-West,
Ann Tria, cafeteria-
Intermediate to Middle,
Keith Parks, custodian-High
School to Custodian /Bus
. Driver - Davidson, Janet
Gardner, teacher assistant-
North to Title I assistant-
Grover, Debbie Wright, cafe-
. teria/bus driver to teacher
assistant/bus driver, Grover.
Leave of Absence: Brenda
Sarvie, cafeteria, Grover.
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