8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MAY 3, 2017
CGHS ranked 25th best in the state
U.S. News and World Report rankings are
out and Cottage Grove High School earned
a spot in the top 25 high schools in the state.
Barely.
According to the report, released each
year, Cottage Grove High School edged out
Elmira High School (24) and beat out Shel-
don High School (29) out of 328 public, pri-
vate and charter schools across Oregon.
The report measures more than 6,000
high schools in the country based on teach-
er and student ratios, test scores, math and
reading scores, college readiness, advanced
classes and graduation rates.
Cottage Grove high school earned a top
fi ve position among graduation rates last
year with more than 90 percent of its stu-
dents making it out of the 12th grade and
onto the next phase of their education or
careers. Overall, 78 Oregon schools were
included in the rankings with only one re-
ceiving a gold distinction from the publica-
tion: the School of Science and Technology
located in Beaverton. Cottage Grove was
awarded a bronze medal.
Principal
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“The student should learn while being as-
sessed and a great is example is learning to
tie your shoe,” said Olsen. “When you learn
to tie your shoe there is tons of practice and
skill building involved with the end result
being that you can tie your shoe. So the as-
sessment of tying your shoe is what the stu-
dent will practice the entire time.”
The presenters gave examples of differ-
ent topics that classrooms were focused on
and how they were assessed in a new way
with this program. One example showed
how fi rst graders looked at opinions and
opinion writing while talking about artists.
The meeting then moved along to pub-
lic comments where an impassioned com-
munity parent urged the board to make the
purchasing of whip-its go from the age of
18 to 21 in congruence with the new tobac-
co ordinance. She told the story of her son
who used this drug and was in a dangerous
place. She noted that the current system is
a “legal loophole” and she has been work-
ing with stores in the area to make sure that the course of the next two years.
they are not available to minors.
The board then discussed new business
After a brief break, the meeting resumed including the adoption of a new math cur-
and a bond update was issued from Super- riculum and a ten-cent price increase in stu-
intendent Parent. “We applied for some dent lunches.
seismic grants, actually fi ve of them,” she
said. “They told us absolutely no way that
they would only fund one and once in a
great while they might pick two and we got
all fi ve.”
The fi ve grants
will be going to-
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buildings to add
posts and beams so
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or someone you know is in need of profession-
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lation, Wheeler says Eugene is not “bussing” residents who may
suffer from mental illness out of the college town and into Cottage
Grove.
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cause there’s a bed open here in a foster home but as for bussing
people in, no. People with mental illness go to Eugene and some
from Eugene come to Cottage Grove,” he said.
South Lane Mental Health
may be losing a director, gain-
ing new patients and holding
its breath to see what the latest
political shake-up will bring but
one thing will remain constant.
There is a small smoke shack
across the street from South
Lane’s building on Birch St.
Sometimes, staff can hear shouts
coming from the structure and
upon further examination, will
fi nd someone showing signs of
mental illness. And while staff
can approach them, offer them
help and gesture to the build-
ing across the street, they can’t
make them seek help.
“We can’t do anything un-
til they cross the street on their
own,” Wheeler said. “But I tell
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