The West Central School Board learned more about a potential religious education pullout program. Superintendent Dan Zylstra says a group of parents discussed Lifewise Academy during this month’s meeting.
“There are other schools around the nation and there’s similar programs in White County where students who opt in to this can be released from school and receive some religious instruction,” Zylstra says, “and so that group of parents presented on that and what that might look like at West Central.”
While Indiana Code does allow students at the high school level to get academic credit for the religion classes, Zylstra previously said West Central is not pursuing that option.
In other business, Zylstra says the school board approved a senior class trip to Colorado. “We’ve not done something like that before,” he says. “That’s going to involve touring the Rockies, doing some other things in the Denver and up that I-25 corridor, so that’ll be a lot of fun.”
He says the school board also appointed Tammy Perry to a four-year term on the Francesville-Salem Township Public Library Board.
