School board candidates met and talked about year-round schooling and teacher unionization at the Lenoir Retirement Community Center Tuesday night.
School board candidate Henry Lane discussed his approval of year round schooling. According to Lane, year round schooling would reduce the need for trailers. It would also help get rid of overcrowding in schools, reducing the number of students in daily attendance by 25%.
School board candidate Larry Doman said that he solely wishes to stop overcrowding in the schools and to increase teacher’s salries.
The incumbent school board candidate, Kerry Corino, discussed the difficulty of counteracting large class size: “Private schools can pick up who they want; public schools cannot pick up who they want,” Corino said.
Fay argued that the cost of educating children will increase by saving on construction costs of additional buildings. “This community does not want schools on totally different schedules,” Fay also said.
Unlike previous debates, little to no discussion was placed on the $35 million bond issue that will appear on the April ballot.
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