By MaryHelen Swanson
A special meeting of the Rush City school board was held Wednesday, Sept. 10 during which the board approved an election resolution.

It calls for an election for the purpose of deciding upon school board members for the coming term.

It confirms that candidates Brian Anderson (incumbent), Carol Cook (incumbent) Julie Gilbert and Channa Tastsides will run for one of thee four-year terms and V. Wayne Buisman and Brenda Nessel will both run for one two-year position.

The election is on the night of the General Election, Nov. 3.

Election judges were also chosen.

The other business that night included accepting the resignation of custodian Tim Peterson, hiring Sarah Jansen as Tiger Club (afterschool program) leader and authorizing advertising for a nurse for a special education student.

Superintendent Vern Koepp was asked following the meeting how the first day of school went and about the use of the President’s address to the students.

Koepp noted that each principal had at least one call from a parent and Koepp himself heard from one parent at a football game.

Last week the Post Review told you that the teachers in Rush City were given the option to show the speech if they felt it appropriate, that they might opt to show it at a later date, but were not required to show the speech.

Koepp said last Friday that he would check with the teachers to see how they handled it.

On Monday, he noted that in the high school, a social studies teacher used a video of the speech with all seniors and asked them to react to the speech in writing and another teacher discussed the speech during a study hall with students in grades 10-12.

In the elementary school, Supt. Koepp noted, the speech was a topic in social studies: a grade 6 teacher and students reviewed the printed version of the speech and discussed it and a grade 4 teacher showed a video of the speech and asked students to pick out an idea they remembered from the speech.

Koepp said others may have used or may plan to use the speech.

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