{"id":4760,"date":"2013-03-27T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2013-03-27T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:37:24","slug":"middle-schools-to-require-uniforms-for-2013-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4760","title":{"rendered":"Middle schools to require uniforms for 2013-14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Board votes in favor of uniforms for middle school students starting next year<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kyle<\/span> Carrozza<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0Staff Writer, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The school board approved $2.3 million of renovation to South Brandywine Tuesday. The maintenance will update the school as North is being replaced.<\/p><\/div>\n

CALN \u2013 Uniforms will be incorporated into the Coatesville Area School District\u2019s middle schools next year, as voted on by the school board at their meeting on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Already worn in the elementary schools, the uniforms will consist of khaki pants or a skirt and a red, black, or white polo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been a great success in elementary schools,\u201d said Board President J. Neil Campbell. \u201cIt makes sense to take them to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not everyone shared Campbell\u2019s view on the decision, though. Michelle Wright, a parent of two students in the district, said that she thinks that uniforms should stay in elementary schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that uniforms going into middle schools would be a disservice,\u201d she said, saying that uniforms get expensive, and it will be unfair to make teachers enforce rules.<\/p>\n

In other action regarding middle schools, the board approved contractor bids to renovate South Brandywine Middle School. The bids are the latest step in plans to replace North and South Brandywine middle schools. While the district cannot afford to replace both as originally hoped, the renovations to South will update the school while North is being replaced.<\/p>\n

Totaling $2.3 million, the renovations include plumbing, electric, and heating. The contracts ended up less costly than a number of board members said they thought they would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese bids and the aggregate total all come in under budget,\u201d said board member Joseph Dunn.<\/p>\n

Sticking with the middle schools as a main topic at board meeting, students from Scott Middle School showed off their efforts to stop bullying. The school held a poster contest, and the three winners, Maya Butcher, Lindsay Brown, and Madison Short, presented their posters to the audience.<\/p>\n

Students Richie Jason and Alexa Otera, who organized the contest, spoke to the board about bullying.<\/p>\n

\u201cBullying is not what it used to be,\u201d said Jason, who cited statistics and examples, such as cyber-bullying, to show how bullying has changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience with bullying just made me push harder with STAND [the school\u2019s anti-bullying program],\u201d said Otera, who said that she hopes to take her message to the elementary schools so that the students will hear it from a young age.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Richard W. Como ended the meeting with a strong message championing Coatesville Area School District. Como said that someone recently asked him why parents would put their children in the district with other options available. Perturbed by the question, Como, along with other members of the administration drafted a letter to the public dissecting how Coatesville schools provide a top-of-line education.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur schools focus on the whole child, academically and socially,\u201d said Como, using both test scores and extracurricular activities to demonstrate his point.<\/p>\n

He said that Coatesville offers a quality education for all types of students, backing that statement up with graduation rates that are higher than other districts and national recognition garnered by gifted students.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeachers in our district are highly qualified, and we\u2019ve seen tremendous growth with all types of learners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Como brought the point home by stressing Coatesville\u2019s diversity, how the district is able to achieve similarly or better than other school districts while also providing a learning environment of people from many different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place that can do any better than we can, but we do it in a multicultural environment, which is a microcosm for the real world,\u201d said Como. \u201cThe proof is in the pudding, and in Coatesville, it\u2019s not a one-egg pudding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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