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Continued From... Campbellsport School Board“Some of these num-

bers are very good esti-mates and some of themare not,” Olson said.

The two options thatwould be too hard to try tomake by next year wouldinclude changing themake-up of the elemen-tary schools and movingthe sixth grade to the jun-ior high/high school build-ing.

The first was to makeCES the school that wouldhouse pre-kindergartenthrough second grade.Then, grades threethrough six would be heldat EES. Olson stated thatacademically this planwould be in the best inter-est of the district, but logis-tically he didn’t know howit would work.

The final option is theone the district would liketo do, but does not feelcould be done at this time.That would be to move thesixth grade to the juniorhigh building.

“To make this work,there would have to besome major remodeling,”Olson said. “Ideally, thisswitch is made when weremodel this (juniorhigh/high) school or builda new school.”

Board members are nowgoing to take all five ofthese additional optionsand look into what wouldbe the best for the schooldistrict. They are hoping tomake a decision at thenext school board meet-ing, which will be held onMonday, April 2.

“Those are the fiveideas and you can mix andmatch those if you wantto,” Olson said.

He meant that theycould even take parts ofeach option presented andput them together to cre-ate another alternative.

The listening session isbeing held so board mem-bers can find out how par-ents and residents of thedistrict feel about theplans. They want to getinput from everyone tomake sure that they aredoing what is best for thedistrict and the students.

Many parents were atthe meeting again to voicetheir concerns.

Jim Zimdahl is con-cerned about the amountof class time the sixthgrade students will losebecause of the shuttle busride to EES.

“That is a minimum of ahalf-hour a day,” he said. “Ithink it is more importantto have that educationaltime for the sixth graders.Our kids can’t afford tolose a half-hour a day onthe bus.”

Candy Lindgren added,“We are choice parentsfrom Kewaskum. I feel thatwe’ve invested a lot inbeing in that( C a m p b e l l s p o r tElementary) school. Thestudents will no longer beallowed to be in theMissoula play. I can’t helpbut take this kind of per-sonally.”

Cindy Hodny explainedthat when her family need-ed to move, they looked atthe school districts in thearea and made their deci-sion on where to locatebased on that.

“We would never havemoved here (knowing thekids would be uprooted). Iwould never want anyoneto get the impression thatwe don’t want our kids togo to that (Eden) school.It’s just a lot of disruptionfor one year. I think thatsometimes things that look

good on paper only lookgood on paper.”

Many were questioningwhy the district continuesthe four-year-old kinder-garten program if there isnot enough room for all theclasses. It is an optionalprogram in the district thatwas started four years

ago. Jay Miller, board presi-

dent, explained that byhaving that program thestate aid for the district hasincreased because of thenumber of students addedthrough the program. Itincreases state aid everyyear by about $80,000-

$100,000. Olson and Miller also

reminded the board mem-bers that whatever deci-sion they make will be along-term solution. It willbe implemented until thedistrict decides how to pro-ceed with the long-rangefacility plans.

“I think what you go withwill be for the next four tofive years at least,” Olsonsaid.

The listening session todiscuss these proposalswill be next week Tuesday,March 27, at 7:30 p.m. atEden Elementary School.Make sure to attend.

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