The Estevan Comprehensive School, in conjunction with SaskTel, SaskEd and the Southeast Regional College could be introducing a distance education program at 33 Central School in Fillmore during the fall semester of 1998.
While the project is still in the discussion stages, it will feature two-way sound and visual interaction. Students at 33 Central will be able to take a graphic arts course taught in Estevan.
Traffic directors at Queen Elizabeth School are reportedly getting ill from bus fumes. While they are directing traffic and stopping vehicles to allow buses to leave the school grounds, traffic directors are inhaling diesel exhaust from the buses. Board members decided to alleviate fumes in the air by extending tail pipes up the backs of buses.
The Community Access Program (CAP), has been installed and is well underway in Weyburn. Division director Crandall Hrynkiw pointed out that if educators in Midale and Fillmore were able to lend their expertise to similar computer systems, the two towns would be eligible for a government grant to help fund the CAP program by March 1. The board will also be examining ways to include Griffin on the Weyburn line.
Board members agreed to hire a part-time secretary to help Hrynkiw in his role of superintendent of three school divisions. Each division board will aid in the cost of the secretary, and the role will be re-examined in the fall to decide if a full-time position will be required.
The role of secretary-treasurer within the school division will be formally changed to that of Superintendent of Administration.
Board chairperson Donnett Elder, along with Brenda Freeman and director Crandall Hrynkiw, will be attending the third Nat. Congress on Rural Education in Saskatoon on March 11-13.
Schools in the central division will be releasing their action plans in the near future. The plans let the board know what teachers feel they need to educate students within the next year. The board will be examining these plans as a beginning to the budget planning process. Hrynkiw reiterated that the plan is not a wish list, but is a needs assessment.
A question was raised concerning seatbelts in buses, to which board members explained that several safety tests have been done on school buses throughout the country and the advice of experts is to keep safety belts out of school buses, except for the driver.
An insurance representative from the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association (SSTA) will be doing a safety check of playground equipment at Weyburn Central schools.
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