Miscellany: Schools and Lilly Scholarships

Dr. Kimberly A. Knott Superintendent

Knox Community School Corporation
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In prior blogs, Make it a true merit scholarship and Problems with Merit
I wrote about the Starke County Community Foundation’s Lilly Scholarship. I thought that a follow up may be of interest. There were 2 winners this year. As always, a North-Judson San Pierre Schools’ graduate captured this fabulous $100,000 plus award. This year we do have a Knox graduate. Here are the names:

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Lauren Akers, of North Judson, a graduate of North Judson-San Pierre High School, will study math education at Purdue University.

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Hope McIntire, of Knox, a graduate of Knox Community High School, will study pre-pharmacy at Purdue University.

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The Starke County Community Foundation web site has no information regarding this year's Lilly Awards. Why not? Don't these outstanding students deserve a bit of publicity?

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Another follow-up is concerning

Wow! Knox Elementary, Exemplary School. My scoop was correct, the State of Indiana did announce that Knox Elementary was ranked "Exemplary". Again Congratulations! The law breaks schools down every year into five categories. Those categories, from best to worst, are: exemplary, commendable, academic progress, watch and probation Knox High School was in the “Watch” Category The Knox Middle School was scored as “Academic Progress”. One shouldn’t make too big a deal about a “Watch” without knowing the entire story.

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There can be some pretty meaningless reasons for the State to issue a “Watch”. So Dr. Knott, Superintendent, of schools, explain away. The school’s web site has zero, nada, nothing. The link called “Dr. Knott’s News” is empty, zero, nada, nothing. Not very impressive is it?