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Board to refer DECA overnight trip to full board; textbooks for Women in Literature course posted for review
Summary
The curriculum committee was asked to refer approval of an overnight trip for the new DECA student club to the full board and heard a preview of two proposed texts for a new Women in Literature and Society course; the textbook review will return to the curriculum committee in February.
Assistant Superintendent Mister Bechtold asked the curriculum committee to refer approval of an overnight student trip for the district’s inaugural DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) club to the full board at the January business meeting so students can attend the state conference in Hershey.
“We have a new student club this year, the DECA Club…they have their state conference in Hershey,” Bechtold said, explaining that DECA is similar to FBLA but follows a different competition schedule and provides additional student participation opportunities. Bechtold added that the club was started by students, approved as a non‑supplemental club by the school, and that the overnight trip request will be moved forward for full board approval.
Bechtold also introduced a curriculum item: Mr. Rosen presented two texts for a new Women in Literature and Society course — The Awakening and Small Things — and asked that the curriculum committee preview the materials. Bechtold said the books will be available in the superintendent’s office for board members to review and that the curriculum committee will consider them at its February meeting; no action was requested tonight.
No committee vote was recorded on either item; administrators said the DECA overnight trip would be added to the full board agenda in January and that textbook materials would be returned to the committee in February for possible approval.
