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THE BATH COUNTY NEWS-OUTLOOK
• Owingsville, Ky.--Week of May 1 - May 7, 2003
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High School asks for waiver of grading scale
for 2003-2004 year, but board denies request
Sunny Kramer .............
News-Outlook Staff Writer
The Bath County Board of Edu-
cation met on Wednesday, April
23, to conduct their regular monthly
meeting flr April which included
adjusting of the grading scale, the
discussion of funds for the prom
and fund-raisers at OES.
Approved were the minutes of
the March 26 regular board meet-
ing; the financial report for March
2003; and all claims.
Brent Richards, with Ross-
Tarrant, Inc., was present to ask the
board for their approval of a revi-
sion to BG- 1 for the HVAC System
at Bethel Elementary School. Pa-
perwork for the project had to be
revised to reflect the actual bid
amount, which is $335,000. After a
motion was made by board mem-
ber Gayle Croucb and seconded by
board chairman Sandy Crouch, the
motion carried 5-0.
Bath County Principal Paul Prater
addressed the board, with a request
from his school's site-based deci-
sion making council for a waiver of
the Bath County School System's
grading scale for the 2003-2004
school year.
In December, the board changed
the schools' grading scale for next
year. The scale had made an "A"
93-1(X); The change lowered an
"A" to 90-100.
Prater said BCHS staffwas polled
and the results were split; 50 per-
cent in favor and 50 percent op-
posed. He added that the SBDM
council was "strongly in favor" of
keeping the scale 93"1(X).
Carol Laferty spoke next, on be-
half of the SBDM council. She has
taught business at the school for 10
years.
"Our council did vote to keep the
grading scale at 93-100/' she be-
gan. "Why would we lower our
expectations for students when
we're trying so hard to improve our
test scores?"
Laferty was worried about the
message that would be sent to stu-
dents and said she was against
"dumbing down education." She
also was wanted to ensure students
were prepared for college or voca-
tional school.
Laferty said she contacted the
Office of Recruitment and Reten-
tion at Morehead State University
and learned that 20 percent of en-
tering freshmen at MSU have to
take remedial classes, which they
receive no credit for, before they
take others.
Prater offered the statistic that
only 10 percent of Bath County
students graduate from college.
"With the grading scale we cur-
rently have (93- I00), plenty of stu-
dents are getting A's," said Laferty.
"Too many I think."
Laferty polled seven area schools
and all but one had lowered their
scores to 90-100. The one excep-
tion, Morgan County, still has their
grading scale at 93-100.
BCHS teacher Lorraine
Leadingham expressed her opposi-
tion to lowering the scale by say-
ing, "I'm probably the second hard-
est teacher at that school and I'm
teaching at an eighth grade level."
Chairman S. Crouch explained
that she was in favor of keeping the
lowered scale because of KEES
scholarship money and for the stu-
dents who work hard, but struggle
to make good grades.
A BCHS student addressed the
audience to say that she wished she
had been pushed harder while in
school.
Before sitting down she added
that, "A 90 will never be an A to
me."
"A teacher has control of stan-
dards in the room," said G. Crouch.
S. Crouch made the motion to
keep the scale 90-100 for next year.
G. Crouch seconded her motion
and it carried 4-1, with board mem-
ber Bobby Rogers voting no.
In other business, a local church
was given permission to use the
athletic field for a revival.
Bath County Girl's Softball
Coach Bertha Johnson announced
that the softball field was now in
decent shape and thanked the school
board.
BCHS teacher Lee Ann Ramey,
who is in charge of prom this year,
addressed the board and asked if
there was anyway possible that they
could get money for their event.
The board didn't approve many of
their fundraising ideas and with
funding low, the committee is in
desperate need.
A motion was made by G. Crouch
for the board to come up with up to
$3,000 for the prom, but only if the
funds are still needed after all fund-
raising efforts are complete. The
motion carried 5-0.
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Bertha Johnson, who is the par-
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student, voiced her frustration with
the amount of FFO (Parent Teacher
Organization) fundraisers held at
OES.
"I have major problems with the
number of fundraisers they have
done," she said, and asked "Is there
a limit? Because there should be."
Board vice-chairman Carroll Otis
informed Johnson that the board
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Sharon Smith, OES principal,
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