The Story
BHS may be changing up its suspension policy.
Not so fast…
You’re not entirely off the hook. The school administration has been discussing a new way of disciplining their rebel students－Saturday school. It’s just like the The Breakfast Club!
And hold on!
Before we continue, we just want to show you exhibit A: Operation Breakfast Club, and exhibit B, when we made some suggestions on how to make the whole idea better after John Schneller originally proposed it over the summer. We don’t want there to be any dispute about who came up with the line first. Unless the school is also changing the plagiarism policy…
How is it going to work?
Instead of the traditional out-of-school or in-school suspension, where students either miss school or sit in Mrs. Noe’s office for seven hours, students will go to school for four hours on a Saturday to participate in a range of activities. One of these hours will include an educational lesson on topics like ethics, decision making, etc. Some of the time will also go towards schoolwork. The real question is, will the students have to write an essay answering who do they think they are?
Who supports this?
Board members and BHS administration presented the idea to the school board who wildly supported it. They’re hoping that it will give students the time to reflect and be less of an isolating experience. Basically, they want to change everything that makes suspension what it actually is…
How would this be implemented?
First of all, school officials estimate that it would cost around $3500 to run the program every Saturday. The administration would pay someone $100 for a Saturday to look after the kids. That’s right, Saturday School would involve hiring a whole new person. If the program is adopted, which sounds very likely, Mr. Fournier says it would not begin until the start of 2020, at the earliest.
Who is this program directed towards?
The policy is for anyone who would have gotten suspended, but, from what it sounds like, the school would really like to crack down on vaping. In an Instagram poll, 87% said that vaping was still prevalent at BHS. Currently, if students are caught vaping for the first time, they must do community service, attend educational seminars on the dangers of vaping, and reflect on it in writing (finally, some Breakfast Club nostalgia!). Saturday suspension could combine all those things. Of course, it would also be for people who broke the other rules.
The Runaway
The administration still has some serious planning to do, but in the meantime, don’t take your Saturdays for granted.
What to say…
When we’re trying to rationalize what’s good about budget season…
Christmas, Mr. Fournier’s excellent snow-day-decision-making, and…hockey season. We’re hoping for better team sport action this winter, and we’re looking to boys hockey to do it for us. In case you’re forgetting, they won last year. And came in second the year before. And then won the year before that. And the year before that. We lost nine seniors, but we still have a stacked team including forward Owen Roberto, defender John Giroux, and goalie Shea Guimont, who were three of our top players last year. The new team did well in their jamboree, so they’re optimistic. So we’re optimistic. But Pinkerton and Exter didn’t seem to graduate many people. So we’re now blindly optimistic.
When you’re still trying to rack your brain for good things…
February break, the end of college applications, and…course scheduling? With the new budget come new BHS courses. The highlights: The Science of Well-being, and Memoir Writing. The former seems to be what everyone hopes AP Psychology will be, and the latter…is for students to start writing about their lives…get ready for the Tales of my Jeep.
Things to Know
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Talent show this Friday at 6:30
Because winter sports are starting…
We’ll give you the season openers for this week. Swim and Dive vs. Nashua North and Timberlane today at 7:00. Wrestling on Wednesday at Alvirne at 7:00.
A moment of silence please!
CBY is dissolving. R.I.P.