School District 55’s Reconsideration Committee will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, to begin deciding the fate of a book that language arts teachers are using in their eighth-grade classes, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”
The meeting will be held at the School Boardroom at the district headquarters, 1920 Long St. If the location changes, that update will be posted here.
The committee, selected on Monday evening by the School Board will submit a judgment on how to handle the young adult novel by Sherman Alexie.
Appointed Monday by School Board members to the nine-member Reconsideration Committee as community members are: former board member Diane Gerson, a retired principal; Craig Martin, city manager of Sweet Home and a longtime aquatics coach; Rob Younger, a retired Sweet Home High School science teacher and longtime football head coach; community resident Roseanne James; and Don Knight, a longtime local youth sports coach and youth leader who is currently a youth pastor.
District employees appointed by Supt. Don Schrader are: Terry Augustadt, a former school counselor who is now principal at Hawthorne Elementary School; high school language arts teacher Pam Duman; and librarian/media specialist Carol Donnelly. The student representative will be India Porter, a junior at the high school.