All in WSSD School Board
The focus topic of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board meeting on Monday, April 8, was Safe2Say Something, a youth violence prevention program run by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.
Business Administrator Martha Kew struck two positive notes for the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board at its meeting on Monday, March 25. She first noted that student participation in breakfasts and lunches was up 3% across the district this school year — an average increase of nine breakfasts and 104 lunches per day — coinciding with the beginning of WSSD’s contract with Nutrition Group, the district’s food service provider, whose contract is due for renewal. She takes this to signify student approval of the new food, and has additionally heard positive feedback from both students and staff. In particular, she has received “Numerous compliments regarding the [new] pizza.”
The Swarthmorean is looking for a reporter to regularly cover the meetings of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board, which are usually held on the second and fourth Monday of each month, beginning at 7 p.m. and running 30 to 60 minutes.
At its bimonthly meeting on Monday, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board approved a proposed calendar for the 2019-20 school year. The calendar incorporated some revisions made by the WSSD administration in response to concerns raised at the preliminary presentation at the board’s February 22 meeting.
As reported in last week’s Swarthmorean, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board meeting last Monday, February 11, was punctuated by an attempt by a resident named “Peter” to read into the record a victim’s impact statement by a WSSD female student who he says was raped by a male student. The latter is now involved in WSSD extracurricular activities, according to Peter. Neither Peter nor the school board divulged the names of the parties, and Peter was prevented from reading the impact statement into the record at the 2/11 meeting.
