Neillsville School Board Hears Administrators' Reports and Continues Laude Grading System Discussion
Thursday, July 25th, 2019 -- 10:17 AM
-The Neillsville School Board heard the Administrators’ Reports at their meeting on Monday.District Administrator John Gaier reported on a thank you card, an email from Judy Lindner at the Recreation Department, the CESA 10 Annual Convention invitation, two letters from the DPI, a letter from Representative Bob Kulp, an article regarding K-12 education in the state budget, a thank you letter to Governor Evers, a Focus on Energy report and an article ranking taxes and income in each state. The board also had a lengthy discussion on the Laude Grading System. Neillsville will be making a transition to the system and they were discussing the policy regarding the new grading system. The board had some questions regarding concerns brought up by students. They discussed how often to review the class and extra-curricular activities included in the point system.
They also discussed if a student would receive credit if a new class or activity was added to the list and a student had already taken it. They also discussed what qualifies and how in the system, how the academic letters and honor roll work with the new system and if they should reconsider changing the start of the new grading system. Currently, the new system will be implemented beginning in the 2020 school year. However, one board member felt that this was too soon and students may have made different choices in regards to their early high school career if they had known this was going to happen.
The administration countered that students have already begun to make changes to their schedules for the next school year because of this switch, so it wouldn’t be ideal to switch it back. In the end, a board member voted to approve the policy with the changes, but to include a change that would have the policy begin in 2023. Two board members voted yes and three voted no. They then approved the policy with the changes but to keep the starting year at 2020. It was approved with 4 voting yes and one voting no.
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