A representative of the South Carolina
School Boards Association will speak at the Democratic Club South of the
Broad's meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The public is invited to the event
in the community room of Palmetto Electric Cooperative at 11 Mathews Drive
on Hilton Head Island.
Debbie Elmore, director of communications for the association, will
discuss Gov. Mark Sanford's proposed Put Parents In Charge Act. The
association is opposed to the diversion of public funds earmarked for
public education to private schools and home-school students.
In other school news:
Hilton Head High School will hold an orientation meeting this week for
parents of eighth-graders who will attend high school next year. School
administrators and teachers will review courses, requirements and academy
programs for the 2005-06 school year. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday in the school's Visual and Performing Arts Center.
The sixth-grade teams at Hilton Head Middle School will participate in
the Fifth Saturday community service project Saturday. Teachers, students
and parents are welcome to gather for breakfast at All Saints Episcopal
Church on Main Street and then participate in a cleanup project. Students
will earn community service hours. For more information, call Veronica
Miller at 689-4500.
Michael C. Riley Elementary School students will participate in an
integrated approach to health, social studies, mathematics, language arts
and physical education by taking part in a program called "Go the Extra
Mile" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Students can walk, jog and run laps around the track adjacent to the
school. Each class follows an imaginary tour that corresponds to a program
called "Miles Across America." Classes each keep a tally of the miles
students have traveled. The program is designed to promote a pattern of
regular exercise.
Hilton Head Preparatory School art students are showing samples of
their art at the Student Art Reach Exhibition at the Hilton Head Art
League Gallery at Pineland Station through Saturday. The public is
invited.
The Hilton Head Middle School PTA will meet at 12:30 p.m. today in the
media center. All are welcome to attend the brown bag luncheon.
Hilton Head Preparatory School will hold an admissions open house from
8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday in the KNS Media Center on Prep's campus.
Michael C. Riley Elementary School is looking for volunteers to assist
in its Operation Take Flight program. The kindergarten-enrichment program
focuses on first-grade readiness skills. Volunteers work with individual
students for 20 to 30 minutes on "hands-on" curriculum and
teacher-directed instruction. If interested, or for more information, call
Janice Mazzeo at 706-8300.
Jacob Spirer will be Hilton Head Preparatory School's senior speaker
Thursday during the morning meeting, which begins at 9:40 a.m.
Hilton Head Preparatory School English teacher Katy Hudak has been
selected as a reader for the new SAT essay section. She will begin her
training soon and will be reading the first administration of the test in
March.
Also, Prep faculty members Tina Webb-Browning, Katy Hudak and Jan
Dowell have each been nominated by one of the school's parents or students
for the Disney Hand Teacher Award.
