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<title>Middletown School News and Issues</title>
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<description>Meagan reports about schools in Middletown, Ohio, and students, teachers and parents just like you for The Middletown Journal newspaper. She wants your suggestions and questions for more news stories. Leave a comment here or e-mail Meagan.</description>
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<title>Many students consent to vaccine</title>

    

    


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<description>A total of 1,850 students have consent for the H1N1 vaccine, said Debbie Alberico, school communication specialist. City Nursing director Jackie Phillips said she could begin this week or early next week giving shots to high-risk students....</description>
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A total of 1,850  students have consent for the H1N1 vaccine, said Debbie Alberico, school communication specialist.

City Nursing director Jackie Phillips said she could begin this week or early next week giving shots to high-risk students.

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<title>Two cases of H1N1 at private school</title>

    

    


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<description>Two students from Middletown Christian Schools have been diagnosed with H1N1 flu, said spokesman Roger Brandenburg. A high school student and elementary school student this week and last, Brandenburg said. The school is sending information to staff and students on...</description>
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Two students from Middletown Christian Schools have been diagnosed with H1N1 flu, said spokesman Roger Brandenburg.

A high school student and elementary school student this week and last, Brandenburg said.

The school is sending information to staff and students on good hygiene, like covering a sneeze with an elbow and washing hands.

Students with flu-like symptoms are also disinfecting their desks at the end of the day.

The school also has a standing policy that students cannot come to school with a fever.

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<dc:subject>Middletown Christian School</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-21T15:22:29-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Middletown to review superintendent candidates</title>

    

    


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The Middletown Board of Education has set a special meeting to review applications for superintendent next month.

The board will do that in a private session from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

That&amp;#8217;s all the info that&amp;#8217;s available so far, the applications are not yet in the school&amp;#8217;s hands.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-21T14:43:08-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amanda Elementary School celebrates fall</title>

    

    


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Amanda Elementary School had a colorful family event Tuesday, Oct. 21.

See our photos from it here.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-21T11:42:07-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Middletown student play this weekend</title>

    

    


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<description>Middletown High School students are using their fall play this weekend to tell the true story of a little boy who celebrated life even as he struggled with two illnesses. &amp;#8220;The Yellow Boat&amp;#8221; brings the audience into the colorful mind...</description>
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Middletown High School students are using their fall play this weekend to tell the true story of a little boy who celebrated life even as he struggled with two illnesses.



&amp;#8220;The Yellow Boat&amp;#8221; brings the audience into the colorful mind of Benjamin Saar, a boy from Arizona who was born with hemophilia and died at age 8 from AIDS-related complications after contracting the disease through blood transfusions.

&amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s more of a celebration of life than a sad story,&amp;#8221; said Gracie Taylor, who portrays Benjamin.

Just an hour and 15 minutes long, the story, written by Benjamin&amp;#8217;s father, David Saar, takes the audience from Benjamin&amp;#8217;s birth into his time in the hospital, where he drew colors and shapes to share his physical pain.

&amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s colorful. It&amp;#8217;s touching. It&amp;#8217;s really, really heartwarming,&amp;#8221; said senior Chloe Manning, who plays a child psychologist who tries to bring color into the sterile white hospital.

This will be the last play for longtime Middletown teacher Karen Griesinger.

How to go:

Where: Middletown High School Theatre, at 601 N. Breiel Blvd.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Oct. 23 and Saturday Oct. 24

Cost: Tickets are $5


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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-21T10:15:20-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>More Middletown students eligible for private school scholarships</title>

    

    


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<description>Students from Verity Middle School are now eligible to apply for a state scholarship to attend private school. Ohio&amp;#8217;s EdChoice program provides scholarships to attend participating private schools to students from schools that have been rated in academic watch or...</description>
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Students from Verity Middle School are now eligible to apply for a state scholarship to attend private school.

Ohio&amp;#8217;s EdChoice program provides scholarships to attend participating private schools to students from schools that have been rated in academic watch or academic emergency - the lowest two ratings on the state report card - for two of the past three years.

Verity has been rated in &amp;#8220;academic watch&amp;#8221; two of the last three years, according to the Ohio Department of Education. 

Students at Amanda, Highview and Rosa Parks elementary schools are also eligible to apply to the EdChoice program.

The application period is Feb. 1, 2010 through April 16, 2010.

Get more info from the state here.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-20T07:14:59-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Meet the candidates</title>

    

    


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<description>Community members are invited to meet the candidates for local trustee and school boards races Tuesday, Oct. 27. The Madison Lions Club will sponsor a Meet the Candidates Night at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Madison Junior/Senior High School Commons....</description>
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Community members are invited to meet the candidates for local trustee and school boards races Tuesday, Oct. 27.

The Madison Lions Club will sponsor a Meet the Candidates Night at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Madison Junior/Senior High School Commons.

Candidates will discuss the future of Madison Township and Madison Local Schools. 

They will also provide prepared responses to questions given to them in advance and answer audience questions that evening using an index card process. 

Madison Lions Club members will moderate the event, which has been structured to present each candidate and the Madison community in an equal and positive light. 

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<dc:subject>Madison Local Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-19T15:00:54-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>See Wildwood students at their concert</title>

    

    


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<description>More than 400 people turned out last night for Wildwood Elementary School&amp;#8217;s concert to wrap up its celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Check out our photos from the event....</description>
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More than 400 people turned out last night for Wildwood Elementary School&amp;#8217;s concert to wrap up its celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Check out our photos from the event.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-16T14:40:42-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Charter school closed for absences</title>

    

    


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<description>One local charter school closed because of influenza this week, as other local schools also deal with absence rates that are higher than normal for this time of year. Middletown Preparatory and Fitness Academy was closed Thursday, Oct. 15, and...</description>
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One local charter school closed because of influenza this week, as other local schools also deal with absence rates that are higher than normal for this time of year.

Middletown Preparatory and Fitness Academy was closed Thursday, Oct. 15, and Friday, Oct. 16, because of influenza, the school reported to the Ohio Department of Health. The school will reopen Monday, Oct. 19.

Twenty percent of students were absent and there were five confirmed cases of H1N1, said Superintendent Myrrha Satow.

&amp;#8220;We are educating families, students and staff on handwashing; and we are sanitizing the building regularly and have installed hand washing stations throughout, also making families aware of protocol for keeping sick children at home,&amp;#8221; Satow said by e-mail. 

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<dc:date>2009-10-16T10:38:18-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>870 now consent to vaccine</title>

    

    


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<description>The number of kids who have consent to take the H1N1 vaccine has gone up to 870, with more consent forms arriving at the school daily, according to Debbie Alberico, the school district&amp;#8217;s communication specialist. Consent forms are due Wednesday,...</description>
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The number of kids who have consent to take the H1N1 vaccine has gone up to 870, with more consent forms arriving at the school daily, according to Debbie Alberico, the school district&amp;#8217;s communication specialist.

Consent forms are due Wednesday, Oct. 21.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-14T16:45:44-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Students: stop hall monitors, uniforms</title>

    

    


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<description>Making their perfect school, Middletown students would flunk uniforms and hall monitors. Students were asked what they would stop, start and continue doing to make their school a better place in the focus sessions held last month that the school...</description>
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Making their perfect school, Middletown students would flunk uniforms and hall monitors.

Students were asked what they would stop, start and continue doing to make their school a better place in the focus sessions held last month that the school board discussed Monday.

No suggestion was turned down and each student was given five votes to place on their top five ideas. 

The results turned up some interesting suggestions that are featured here below from the high school students&amp;#8230;.

They would:

Stop&amp;#8230;.Hall monitors (11 votes), making decisions without student consent (3), broken vending machines (1), favoritism on athletic teams (1), focusing on the negatives within the school and community (1), wasting money on unnecessary items or employees, shortening vacation time, hiring under qualified teachers, treating everyone like terrible students, making people get nurse passes, being so negative on the announcements, overcrowding lunches, locking bathrooms during lunch periods, changing schedules around so much, overpriced lunch items

Start&amp;#8230;Half-day for Butler Tech students/early release for Butler Tech (8 votes), actually disciplining students (7), spending taxpayer money wisely (4), having pep rallies, more school spirit (4), pre-sale tickets for Butler Tech (4), more field trips (3), focusing on the positives (2), spending on all activities (1), turf field for soccer and football (1), bring back intervention (1), focus on the benefits for all students not just those on academic watch (1), community involvement with the schools (1), corporate partnerships (1), make more space in lunch (1), more administrative support of activities (other than football) (1), fundraisers for the district, equal recognition of extra curricular activities, fixing schedules before school starts, start focusing on students and teachers as much as data and money, being more organized, new process for hiring teachers, have more janitors, have both boys and girls basketball at the same place

Continue&amp;#8230; Advanced Placement and honors classes (11), open campus (7), early release (6), traditions like homecoming week (3), student government interaction with the administrators and community (1), buses, starting school Aug. 17 to get out early, after school activities, sport awards, Freshman Academy, post secondary, senior late arrival, improvements around the school (parking lots/painting/landscaping), intervention programs, free breakfast

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2009-10-13T08:11:24-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Nearly 800 consent to vaccine</title>

    

    


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Nearly 800 Middletown students have turned in consent forms for the H1N1 vaccine so far, said Jackie Phillips, with the city health department.

That number does not include any forms from Amanda and Highview elementaries and Central Academy.

It is not yet known when vaccinations will begin or how many will be available, Phillips said.

Will your child be getting the vaccine? If so, tell me why by calling me at (513) 705-2551 or e-mail mengle@coxohio.com.

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<dc:subject>Middletown City Schools</dc:subject>
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<title>Middletown is &quot;ready for some change&quot;</title>

    

    


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Most people are ready to support new ideas in Middletown City Schools.

Community members and school staff who participated in several community forums held in September to gather input for the schools superintendent search put their support behind ideas to start new initiatives to improve the school.

The Middletown Board of Education will hear all the details from those sessions from search consultant Barry Rowland during a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12. 

Board President Greg Tyus said there will also be a time for public comment during the meeting.

Participants in the special sessions were asked to give their ideas on what Middletown schools should stop, start and continue doing to be the best it can be. They then voted on which ideas they thought were most important.

&amp;#8220;One thing is clear - people are ready for some change and willing to support it,&amp;#8221; Rowland wrote in a report to the school board.

According to the report, the majority of votes focused on things relating to discipline and decision making.

When votes were tallied&amp;#8230;

the administrators focus group had the most votes in the stop category under &amp;#8220;conversing about discipline instead of student achievement.&amp;#8221; In the start category, the top vote getter was &amp;#8220;moving kids from compliance to true engagement.&amp;#8221; And in continue, administrators voted for keeping a focus on data.

Volunteers and parents voted to stop &amp;#8220;having rules not enforced,&amp;#8221; start communication and continue &amp;#8220;to promote and be open to different types of learning.&amp;#8221;

Staff voted to stop &amp;#8220;keeping uncontrollable students in the building/classrooms,&amp;#8221; start having full-time nurses, physiologists and social workers in all buildings, and continue special classes like fine arts.

Businesses and community members said the school should stop &amp;#8220;ignoring problems without analyzing root problems and a plan to make changes,&amp;#8221; start supporting teachers on discipline matters and continue a focus on academic achievement and character building.

Students put their focus on things like doing away with uniforms and eliminating hall monitors and continuing advanced classes at the high school.

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<dc:date>2009-10-09T15:59:06-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Business manager resigns</title>

    

    


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<description>Franklin City Schools Business Manager Frank Chapman has resigned from his position effect Oct. 9. Chapman was hired March 20 with a control valid through July 31, 2010 after retiring from Middletown City Schools, but resigned early for personal reasons,...</description>
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Franklin City Schools Business Manager Frank Chapman has resigned from his position effect Oct. 9.

Chapman was hired March 20 with a control valid through July 31, 2010 after retiring from Middletown City Schools, but resigned early for personal reasons, said school board President Chris Sizemore.

Sizemore said the school board will likely discuss the opening during an executive session at their meeting Monday, Oct. 12.

The board will also vote on the resignation of Steve Buerschen, director of educational services, effective May 31, 2010.

But the majority of the meeting will be spent discussing the school district&amp;#8217;s finances and emergency operating levy that expires Dec. 31, 2010.

Sizemore said the board will discuss whether to pursue an emergency levy or continuous levy and the millage that will be needed. 

Superintendent Arnol Elam said he will be assuming the business manager duties until the board decides how to proceed with the position.

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<title>No H1N1 in Madison</title>

    

    


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Madison Local Schools has not had a case of confirmed swine flu, according to Superintendent Tom York.

(I&amp;#8217;m posting this because I heard a rumor today that there was one, so just to clarify there was not.)

Here&amp;#8217;s the official message Madison sent to me today:

As a part of our ongoing effort to keep you informed about the health and safety of our students, we ask that you read the following list of facts:

Madison Local Schools have not received official documentation of any confirmed cases of the H1N1 Virus as of Friday, October 9, 2009

Madison Local Schools is emphasizing the importance of hand washing and cough and sneeze etiquette. 

Madison Local Schools&amp;#8217; custodial staff is continuing to disinfect the schools daily. 
Students are sent home if they come to the clinics with a fever. 

Students are asked to return to school only after their fever has been gone for 24 hours without fever reducing medications. 

Madison Local Schools are in constant contact with the Butler County Health Department and we will continue to update information as necessary. 

The Butler County Health Department will offer FREE and VOLUNTARY vaccinations for students K-12 in the coming weeks. Madison Local Schools will provide more information about the vaccinations as it becomes available. 

Please visit the &amp;#8220;Take Action to Prevent Flu Outbreak&amp;#8221; on the school website for additional prevention suggestions and downloadable copies of information that have been sent home with the students this year. 

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