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If you can Spot It, You can Stop It!

By Holly RicHRatH

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Members o Washingtons District 308 SchoolBoard and the Washington Area Community Cen-ter Board have reached an agreement to help curba 200-spot parking decit or the 2011-12 schoolyear.

Washington Community High School studentswill be able to take advantage o 111 parking spacesin Five Points Washingtons 146-space parking lot.

The WACC originally ofered 50 spaces to beused by students during the school day, rom Aug.22 to May 30. The ofer was criticized at District308s May 9 meeting.

Superintendent Dr. Jim Dunnan and SchoolBoard President Tim Custis attended a meeting othe WACC Thursday, where the parking situationwas discussed.

While media was not allowed in the WACC

By Holly RicHRatH

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Central IntermediateSchool eighth grader KaitlynMacDonald said she plans totake our years oSpanish duringher high-schoolcareer. With thehelp o sotwaredonated to herschool, she is getting a headstart.

Im going to take Spanishall our years in high school sousing Rosetta Stone kind ogives a basis to it, said Mac-Donald, 14.

Dr. Paul Kinsinger, a Wash-ington resident and District51 board member, alongwith Washington Commu-nity Bank, donated RosettaStone sotware to WashingtonSchool District 51 near thestart o the 2010-11 schoolyear.

Rosetta Stone is a serverand web-based interactive

language sotware that o-cuses on real-lie situationsthat simulate the natural ac-quisition o a rst language,unlike a traditional classroomsetting where students con-

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I like Rosetta Stone be-cause youre listen-ing to it throughyour headphonesbut youre still withyour class and yourriends and you can

ask questions, MacDonaldsaid.

Her classmate, Jacob Godi-

nez, said he has also enjoyedthe opportunity to work withthe sotware.

Ive had un with it, hesaid. Its a lot diferent (thana normal class). Its spokenout to you, which made it alot easier to learn.

Godinez said he believeshe picked up more rom thesotware than i he had par-ticipated in a more traditionalSpanish class.

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Washington CommunityHigh School students took anin-depth look at issues acing

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