POTTSTOWN PA – Summer’s only two months away and so too are the summer reading programs in the Pottsgrove School District. Board of School Directors‘ member Nancy Landes hopes the coming programs’ book lists are more entertaining than those offered last year.

• The directors’ first April meeting is scheduled to be held tonight (Tuesday, April 13, 2010) at 7:30 p.m. at Ringing Rocks Elementary School, 1401 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA. A meeting agenda has been available to the public since Monday (April 12). It can be downloaded from the district website as a Microsoft Word document.

Although no one’s guaranteeing five-star reviews, the selections certainly will be different, Landes learned.

Directors got an earful of complaints last August (2009) from students and parents alike, who told them the summer reading choices for Pottsgrove High School were less than satisfying. “Blech,” actually, was the word Director Fred Remelius used at the time to describe the listed books.

Landes, during the board’s most recent (March 23, 2010) meeting, sought assurances from Terri Koehler, the district’s supervisor of secondary education and assessment, that things are bound to get better.

The Pottsgrove Middle School reading list has already been determined, Koehler reported, and all involved there seem to be happy with its contents, she said. The high school list, at the time, had been delayed by other matters in the high school library but was in the process of being compiled, she added. Its contents probably would significantly change, Koehler added.

Grade-by-grade lists of summer reading novels currently appear on the high school library’s web pages, but it could not be immediately determined whether they were the lists for the summer of 2010 or of the prior year.

Related (to the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ March 23 meeting):

• Pottsgrove Teachers Review District Accountability Plan
• School Board Criticizes Lack of Students’ Improvement
• Economic Tales, Exec Sessions, And Long Night At Pottsgrove
• Geothermal Now ‘Locked’ Into Ringing Re-Build
• How Estimated Costs For Ringing Shape Up
• School Board ‘Topic A’ Tonight? Bet On The Budget

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