Lenior, PA - Senior citizens in Lenior School District worry that a proposal for year-round schooling might cost more than they had bargained for. School board candidates took opposing stands on the proposal at the Lenior center Tuesday night.
School board candidate Henry Lane said that a 12-month school schedule would help overcrowding by reducing the number of students in daily attendance at the school. He said this would also decrease the need to use trailers as classrooms.
Incumbent Kerry Corino said the increasing population makes is difficult to counteract large class sizes, and that it is unfair to make comparisons between public and private schools.
Others believe that the new schedule would be costlier than adding permanent buildings. Board President Elton Fay, also in the running, said, “What Mr. Lane fails to tell you is that is we are to avoid erecting additional buildings, to save on construction costs, the cost of educating our children would go up substantially.”
Fay also said that a 12-month schedule “isn’t practical.” Year-round schooling would mean different schedules for students of different ages. “This community does not want schools on totally different schedules,” Fay said.
One senior citizen asked if the teachers in the district could unionize. Fay said teachers in this state cannot, by law, bargain collectively. He also said he doesn’t support the unionization of teachers.
“The teachers are anti-union,” Corino said. “That tells you a lot about how this city operates.”
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