Cuts distress North Eugene students.Byline: ANNE WILLIAMS The Register-Guard North Eugene High School North Eugene High School is a public high school of about 1,200 students in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located at 200 Silver Lane near the Santa Clara area of Eugene.[1] North Eugene's mascot is the Highlander. students made it plain to the Eugene School Board on Wednesday night: They're alarmed about proposed budget cuts at their school. At least 100 students - one-tenth of the school's student body, representing every sport, club and advanced placement class - filled the district auditorium before the board's meeting, many of them clad in Highlander red. Four students spoke, telling the board what losing teachers, classes and athletics programs would mean to them. The school is slated to lose more than five full-time positions next year, due primarily to an anticipated $7 million to $8.5 million districtwide budget shortfall, but also because enrollment has been declining at North Eugene. District officials also have considered slashing slash·ing adj. 1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit. 2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm. 3. high school athletic programs, including baseball and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' , which have a rich tradition at the school. While that scenario is looking unlikely now, the possibility struck a nerve among students. "We came to show you how much we care about our education," junior Katie Walro told the board. Walro, along with fellow juniors Willis Overton, Andrea Kelly Andrea Kelly (born July 31, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Kelly skipped Team New Brunswick in both the 2002 and 2004 Canadian Junior Curling Championships before winning the tournament in 2005. and Casey Stroh, told the board they want to remember high school as an enriching chapter in their lives. But that won't be easy if they keep losing teachers, classes and activities they care about, they said. Board Chairwoman Jan Oliver thanked the students for paying attention Noun 1. paying attention - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" attentiveness, heed, regard to the school's budget problems and for coming to the meeting, then urged them to make a trip to Salem to share the message with the lawmakers who hold the purse strings purse strings or purse·strings pl.n. Financial support or resources, or control over them: the politicians who control federal purse strings; tightened the corporate purse strings. for schools. |
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