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when I ran one that Splendorio was going to pick up on. You would have had a computer on every desk with these kids. They signed with Apple and I think they gave them 248 computers. That would give you the books that would have kids with helmets on it, encyclopedias and all the necessary properties for these kids to learn. But besides that there is about 248 Apple computers involved free of charge. Once you get these on the books and see how that works, Microsoft wanted to do the same thing and when Splendorio took that over he was at HP and it all fell through because someone said the person who they were going to talk to left. Well as all of us know when you work for a major corporation the phone number usually stays with that person or the same person rather who is taking that person’s transfer. So if the person in North Jersey went over to NY, which she did the phone number would still remain the same for that particular department. Seven years ago we lost all those computers and again another Board of Education, Administration and the faculty is losing out for 248 laptops. It happened in Ocean County and I have to go back and make sure it was Ocean, it could have been Ocean or Monmouth but there is 248 pieces of hardware that you could have put on a desk of 248 more children by buying software from Apple, I am sure that is the deal. Same thing with Microsoft, they would have given teachers their monitors, everything needed and you would not have had any discrepancies in some of the books you had to replace, kids with helmets, USSR still in some of the books and what I would like to know also is how many children, I looked in the yearbook for Collins, and they just came home today or yesterday or over the weekend. There is about 18-19 children in a class, I don’t know if that is the average across all the schools, how many children are going to be in an average…what is the student base in each of the classes? If we take children from schools and move them, if you take three kids from each of the grades you will have 15 average with all the schools functioning in September. Are we bringing this down too low and where are they coming from? I know you don’t know where they are coming from yet? Mr. Houser: Let me answer your first question first regarding the computer issue. We would ask you to take that to the Pubic Representation Committee because we definitely would be interested in getting anything we could get as far as a grant or anything to help with computers, books, anything. The second thing, I am going to ask Brian or Dr. McMahon, Mr. Falkowski or Dr. McMahon to answer the questions regarding the number of children in the classes? Dr. McMahon: Basically, the new school opening there is only one regular classroom teacher being hired. What’s mostly happening is students are leaving with the teacher going with them. The reason is because we don’t have rooms for music, art, occupational therapy, so the class size is really not getting lower, the class is moving with the teacher. There is only one fourth grade, maybe a first grade, one or two teachers hired. Mr. Checcia: So can we say that with the kids moving, 15 children to a classroom? Dr. McMahon: Oh no, much higher than that. Mr. Checcia: 17? Barnegat Township Board of Education Minutes - June 10, 2008 26
Dr. McMahon: The class sizes will stay relatively the same size they are now, depends on the grade level. Mr. Checcia: So, it will be 19 the way you will figure it out? Dr. McMahon: I think we will look at that, I am sure the Committee is looking at that with redistricting. Mr. Checcia: That is ok how you are going to redistrict, I just wanted to know because that is a nice size class 18-20 kids. I don’t want to take it too low, like 10, then there is a social problem then. Kids don’t adjust as nice as they do with 15 or 16 kids socially. The least amount of kids in the classroom is not as conducive to social life. Mrs. Sarno: What we are doing with the redistricting depending on where we move the kids from what schools the numbers of kids in the classrooms go up and down. Mr. Checcia: OK, just the average classroom will be either the same or a little less, that is all. Mr. Sarno: It could be 24, 22 or 20 around there right now. Mr. Checcia: That is going to bring our student population to about 3,200 with this move? Mr. Falkowski: That is correct Mr. Checcia: The following year is there a projection yet? Mr. Falkowski: We are receiving about 100 students a year. Mr. Checcia: About 100 a year, is that with attrition, graduations and things? Mr. Falkowski: That is correct. Mr. Checcia: OK, so 100 new students, not necessarily 100 new homes, but 100 new students with children coming in. OK. Mr. Houser: Mrs. Lally? Kim Lally, 42 Bowline Street: I missed the meeting, your last meeting, I was away, but I understand that Officer Mitchell was removed from the Hooked on Fishing, Not On Drugs program, but I see that you have it on your agenda to replace him. Could somebody tell me why he was taken out? Mr. Houser: When we talked about the budget failing and we met as a Committee, the Shared Services Committee of both the Township and the Board, we went through items that were cost effective that we needed to change and this was one of the items we needed to look at because Barnegat Township Board of Education Minutes - June 10, 2008 27
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