Huron school board meeting
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HURON — The Huron School District was awarded a silver level board achievement at the recent Associated School Boards of South Dakota (ASBSD) meeting and award presentation, which was discussed at the School Board meeting held Monday evening.
School Board vice president Tim Van Berkum shared with the board, “our district was presented with ASBSD’s Act Learn Lead (ALL) recognition program, designed to recognize school boards for their dedicated and ethical service to the students of South Dakota.”
Activities in these categories include attending meetings or conventions, participating in board member training opportunities, leadership events and training.
Huron School District achieved 410 points and was awarded the silver level board achievement.
Superintendent Terry Nebelsick highlighted that a letter of clarification was sent out to more than 400 staff members explaining that meals will not be withheld from students and that strategies will be developed between staff and administrators to determine the consequences of inappropriate student conduct.
“The bottom line with the decision to withhold meals from students comes from staff not understanding expectations and that falls on me, so just to share with you the letter of clarification that went out to all staff members explained our protocol that the actual meals served will be available to all students regardless of conduct or financial issues - the location of eating those meals is subject to appropriate student conduct, staff will receive a specific directive from a school administrator before changing the venue and time for a meal, district staff will work closely with administrators on the issues of student conduct and consequences,” Nebelsick explained. “There will be no connection between redirecting or correcting student behavior and the opportunity to eat breakfast or lunch.
I believe that students’ meals were a consequence at the beginning of last week and I believe that the information that teachers shared with parents indicated that breakfast was not going to be allowed and that is against our protocol. On behalf of the district I apologize to the parents and I hope we can move forward.”