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“How can the school board help out the school?” board member Lance Carlson asked middle school principal David Ludy recently. Ludy was appearing before the board at its workshop November 16, one week prior to the regular meeting. No decisions are made at the workshops, but Ludy did have one suggestion.

Encourage the City of Stanley to follow through on its Comprehensive Plan statement about the need for more upscale housing in town, Ludy shared as the substance of his reply to Carlson. Lowincome housing was both needed and cheap, but not everyone wanted to live in it. Increasing the housing options within the City would help attract teachers and others. Before the district could add teachers though, there was an additional matter to think about.

“If we’re going to ever add teachers, we have to add space,” Ludy said, noting that while the district had had more students in the past, “we did things differently,” he said. Jumping in to add to Ludy’s comments was district superintendent Jeff Koenig, who noted that the principals needed board support when it came to matters of student discipline.

“Mr. Ludy or Mrs. Mahr (the high school principal) are often the first one not to let them do what they want,” Koenig said of, meaning that when parents potentially complained the board’s support was important. Not to leave parents out, however, the Community Conversation also came up during workshop discussion, as Koenig put the district’s Ends Policy

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