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The business agenda for the Blue Ridge School Board on February 4th was relatively light. Yet members managed to fill up a couple of hours with committee meetings, presentations and reports.

John Ketchur’s Technology Committee, meeting for the first time in a while, led off the evening with a number of issues related to the burgeoning use of computers and other technology in the schools. Mr. Ketchur said the most common complaints he has received concern the so-called “Pano boxes” in some of the computer labs. The technology department, headed now by Mike Stewart, has replaced full-function computers in some areas with “thin-client” devices that are less costly to operate, but require support from servers and other equipment. They chose equipment from Pano Logic, a company that recently went out of business.

It was standing room only at the February 4th Mountain View School Board meeting. With an excess of fifty people crowding into the board room visitors stood behind board members and administration, and teenagers sprawled across the floor in the space left vacant by the tables’ u-shaped configuration. Most of those present appeared to be in attendance for only one purpose - to make their feelings known regarding a recent soccer situation. Dr. Adams announced early on that if those only present to discuss soccer wished to wait in the school gym throughout the regular meeting, the meeting would adjourn to that space at the end. Almost no one took him up on this offer, and the room remained full until the meeting’s adjournment in the vicinity of 10:30 that night. As policy dictates that visitors wait until the second hearing to discuss matters not on the agenda, the regular meeting business commenced.

Dr. Shea announced that the district had been recognized for their progress in making AYP for two consecutive years in a row, receiving a Keystone award. She acknowledged the board, the principal, the former superintendent, the staff, and the parents for their work.

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