KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
Come join us for the inaugural year
at our new school! Children who will be 5 years old by September 30, 2015 are
eligible to attend Kindergarten for the 2015-2016 school year. Parents should completed the online pre-registration
process and schedule an appointment with the District Registrar to complete
registration. All those who complete
this process will be invited to the “Sail into Kindergarten” program to be held
in late April at the new Vermilion Elementary School.
Online registration for
Kindergarten is completed by logging into the district website at www.vermilionschools.org . Under the “Parents” tab, scroll to “New
Student Registration” on the left side of the page. Follow the directions
for on-line pre-registration. Any device with access to the Internet can
be used to complete this process. If you
need help, please visit the Board of Education office at 1250 Sanford Street
from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM for assistance.
In August 2015 Vermilion Elementary
School will move to the new location at 1285 Douglas Street. We are proud of our new 21st
Century State-of-the-Art K-3 school! Vermilion
Local Schools offers open enrollment to students who live in every school
district in Ohio.
VERMILION ART GUILD
FEATURES STUDENT ART
Artwork by
several Vermilion High School students will be featured in the 2015 Vermilion
Arts Guild Community Art Show. Please stop
in to see some of the wonderful work our art students are creating. The Arts Guild Gallery is located in the Main
Street Vermilion office, 685 Main Street. VHS student artwork is on display and can be
viewed on weekends from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 P.M. Congratulations to all of our
students who were chosen for this special honor!
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR
GRADUATING SENIORS
There are only a few weeks left for
graduating Senior students to submit applications for Scholarship opportunities
available from VHS. Students should be sure
to contact teachers or other references soon so the application can be
submitted on time. Information and the
application can be found on our website at
TECHNOLOGY
AND TEACHING
Occasionally while driving I listen to audio books or
talks by inspirational leaders. Recently
I came across a talk by Dr. Chuck Swindoll about students adapting in a computerized
age. It included a humorous and interesting
commentary between Bill Gates and General Motors. Bill Gates, while speaking at a technology
show, made the comment that if General Motors had kept up with changing
technology as the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars and
getting 1000 miles to the gallon.
General Motors, in response, issued a press release that said, “If
General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving
cars with the following characteristics”:
1. For no reason whatever, your car would
crash twice a day.
2. Every time the road lines are repainted,
you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the
freeway for no apparent reason. You
would have to pull over to the side, close all the windows, shut the car off,
re-start it and re-open the windows before you could continue. And for some strange reason you would simply
accept this.
4. Occasionally executing a maneuver such as a
left turn would cause your car to shut down, and refuse to restart, in which
case you would simply have to re-install the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car powered by the
sun. It would be reliable, five times as
fast and twice as easy to drive. BUT, it
would run on only 5% of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, alternator and
other warning lights would be replaced by a single light that reads, “This car
has performed an illegal operation”.
7. The air bag system would ask “Are you sure?”
before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatever, your
car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted
the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car
buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the
controls would even remotely resemble the controls in the old car.
10. You would have to press the start button to
turn the car off.
While technology is important in every industry, we
can’t solely rely on technology in education.
The teacher is still very much relevant and important to young learners. In Vermilion we hold our teachers in very
high esteem. Their role might have changed
from lecturer to more of a coach or facilitator, but teachers are still an essential
part of teaching and learning. Technology
will continue to evolve, and is at times challenging to use. This is why we must continue to support our
teachers and value what they do for our students every day. Technology will always be part of what we do,
but teachers will always be needed to facilitate and enhance learning.
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