Grade levels vie for funding

Parents of current fourth-graders at P.C. Jantz Elementary School, represented by Kim King and Carmen Weishaar, made a presentation to the school board April 27 concerning the lack of a fifth grade teacher. Due to budget cuts expected by the state legislature, the board last spring opted not to hire a replacement elementary teacher for retiring second-grade teacher Beverly Scherr. Instead, teachers of grades three through five moved down a grade, leaving the fifth grade without a teacher. Fifth-graders this year were considered part of the junior high student body and went to separate classroo...