gift money to B-R High School
December 14, 2004
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Joseph Gillis Jr.
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At Special Town Meetings in both Raynham and Bridgewater, votes were passed to gift additional funds into the Bridgewater-Raynham School District; this "gift", money for the first time to the High School.
Bridgewater voted for $184,464. Raynham voted for $92,233.66. To hire 3 PhysEd teachers, 2 math, 2 foreign language, and 1 for Special Education.
In Bridgewater, Superintendent McIntyre spoke to the issue of the High School being recently placed on Warning status. The next step could be Probation; and "this could last two - three - four years". The High School is currently at 906 hours, and these funds "should bring it close to the required 990 hours". The Superintendent stated that next year, "cuts will have to be made elsewhere from High School; assumes that Raynham will take care of their K-8 schools, so the issue will be for Bridgewater".
If this gift money was supposed to be a solution, why is it not bringing the High School to the 990 hours? Having the High School day end at 2:05 pm (instead of 1:58 pm) would add 7 minutes per day; the equivalent of an additional 10.5 hours. And then, there would not be any question about if we were meeting the state required hours.
