By By ERIN VER BERKMOES / Niles Daily Star
NILES - Landscape project gets blessing.
The Brandywine School Board Tuesday evening heard a proposal from Jim Ackles, Nathan Semrinec, and Martha Shreve, who taught kindergarten in the district for 34 years, about a landscaping project to be done at Brandywine Elementary.
The project would entail each of the classes deciding what type of landscaping they would like outside of their classroom, then after all the plants and things have been planted those same students would be the ones who would maintain it.
Nathan Semrinec, who is a 1999 Brandywine High School graduate, is the owner of Topiarius Designs and has taken ideas that the students at the school have given the group and started to design what things would look like.
Shreves part in the process is that she will be a facilitator.
The project should take about two to three years to fully complete.
The board also heard from High School Principal Christine Banaszak and Assistant Principal Jim Boger that the school's tardy policy needs to be changed.
With the district not having an after school detention or in school suspension program there really is no consequence for being tardy multiple times. As of right now the students can accumulate four tardies before there is any type of consequence.
Both Banaszak and Boger said that they would rather do something sooner rather than later in this situation and that changing of the policy will send a message to the students.