Senior Job Shadowing

On October 22, B-R seniors spent the day job shadowing. Here are the places that allowed our students to job shadow: Construction/Flooring Travis Johnson West Point Elementary School TMS Design, 10208 L Street Omaha, NE" Office of Atty General 2115 State Captiol Consumer Mediation Dept. St. Francis Hospital West Point Oelkers Associates LLC West Point 203 N Main St. Stangel's Pharmacy 821 Iowa Ave.Onawa, IA E-Valley Agronomics 1952 Highway 32 West Point, NE NET TV Lincoln Brehmer Mfg. Lyons Oakland-Craig Elementary School Indian Health Services Winnebago Bancroft-Rosalie School expresses great appreciation to each of you for providing opportunities for our students to explore potential careers.

Crawdads appear in B-R Nature Center

Elementary students were surprised to find that 3 crawdads had occupied the sandbox on the elementary playground. Recent rains has caused the metal sandbox to fill with water and Mr. Sjuts placed the crawdads in the sandbox over the weekend for the students to look.

B-R at Humphrey St. Francis 6:00 pm Thursday

The first round play-off game vs. St. Francis will be played at 6:00 pm. There will be a regular school day Thursday and Friday. The team bus will leave at 2:40 pm, players dismissing at 2:30.

Possible rematch with St. Francis in first round

Here is what I have for class D-2 football play-off's East Bracket #1 Falls City Sacred Heart vs. #16 Kenesaw #2 Wynot vs. #15 Wausa #3 Nebraska Lutheran vs. #14 Osceola #4 Humphrey St. Francis vs. #13 Bancroft-Rosalie #5 Fullerton vs. #12 Lincoln Parkview Christian #6 Giltner vs. #11 Lawrence-Nelson #7 Sterling vs. #10 Scribner-Snyder #8 Meridian vs. #9 Lyons-Decatur

Order Football Play-Off shirts by Monday noon

Play-off shirts can be ordered tonight at Parent-Teacher Conferences or by noon Monday at the school office. The design is below but with blue instead of red and on a grey shirt. The cost for short sleeved T-shirts is $10 and Hooded sweatshirts is $25.

School consolidation

The news that Lyons-Decatur, Oakland-Craig and Tekamah-Herman are talking about merging into a Burt County school has been the topic of conversation this week. As populations in rural communities decrease, consolidations occur. Bancroft and Rosalie merged in 1982. We no longer play our old rivals Beemer, Coleridge, and Newcastle. Community members will remember that Pender and Bancroft-Rosalie voted on a merger in 1995, and that failed merger led to the closing of old buildings and the passing of bonds for the construction of new facilities by both districts. I researched school consolidations in Nebraska as part of my University of Nebraska Specialists Degree program in 1992. Low student numbers and school facility needs are reasons that were typically given by recently merged K-12 school districts in a survey I conducted. Merged schools reported that increased courses offerings for students and a wider variety of school sports, clubs, and organizations were benefits of their consolidations. Mergers occur in two ways- 1) one school absorbs the other school and the dominant school colors and mascots are kept, or 2) two schools join and become a new entity with new colors and mascot. The downside is the possible economic impact on communities that lose part or all of their school. Where do students fill up with gas or get pop and snacks on their way to school? Where do people stop to eat and drink after school events? These things impact businesses in the effected communities. Families make decisions about where to live based in part on the education provided by the local schools.One question my research could not answer- Did the loss of their school/high school cause the town to decline, or did the decline of the town lead to the loss of the school/high school? The only thing I could conclude was that small towns need to be grow and attract new families if they want to keep a hometown school. Doing nothing is a bad long-term plan. A quote in a local paper stated that Bancroft-Rosalie could gain some option enrollment students if the Burt County schools merger goes through. Bancroft-Rosalie has excellent school facilities and educational programs and we have room for more students. It would be nice if we had better housing options for young families so they could choose to live here as well as go to school here.

5th-6th grade football team wins league championship

Bancroft-Rosalie defeated Creighton 38-26 in the championship game of the 14 team youth league.