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NACS board president s wife says kids should stay home on count day
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
The wife of the Northwest Allen County Schools board president is urging parents to keep their children home on fall count day in an attempt to cost the 7,900-student district state funding.
Lisa Bobay-Somers comments on social media has renewed calls for Kent Somers resignation. Pull your kid and go remote for now, Bobay-Somers wrote in a Facebook comment shared with The Journal Gazette by multiple people. This will be hard for them now. It wont [sic] cost them any money now if you pull your kids. Next fall, sign up as usual and then keep your kids home on the day they count the kids. That s the day they get their funding. If 600 kids are gone it would cost the school $5 million.
The wife of the Northwest Allen County Schools board president is urging parents to keep their children home on fall count day in an attempt to cost t .
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It was an odd remark, delivered amid unnecessary and ultimately fruitless debate over wearing masks at Northwest Allen County Schools.
Board member Steve Bartkus, siding with parents who believe mask-wearing should be optional inside school district buildings, presented analogies he thought fit the situation.
“I think most of these people that are here are not demanding that we take off masks, but they are demanding or asking, Do we have a choice? ” he said during a meeting last week. “Women have a choice to have abortions these days, right? People have a choice to be gay or straight these days, right?”
What started as a debate over mask mandates in schools led to a backlash from the LGBTQ+ community following a board members comments. Groups of students, parents and residents brought various signs showing support for their causes on April 27, 2021. ELLA ABBOTT / WBOI
The Northeast Allen County Board passed a resolution to continue with its original reopening plan from July Monday amid continued tensions over masks.
The board heard nearly three hours of public comments from parents, students and residents during the meeting. The resolution, however, was approved before those comments began.
The resolution grants the superintendent powers to continue the original reopening plans through the first semester of the 2021-2022 school year. It also stipulates that the superintendent can update the plans to comply with any new guidance or mandates;