2025-10-16 11:41:36 -04:00
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# Hillsboro-Deering School District Ideas
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2025-10-16 14:11:30 -04:00
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## Points
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* Deering leaving does not cause financial hardship for Hillsboro, it exposes the pre-existing financial issues.
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* For years, Deering complained of the expanding school budget, but out-voted by Hillsboro.
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## Ideas
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2025-10-16 11:41:36 -04:00
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* Ask Students to Come up with Ideas
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* integrate business plans into curriculum
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* Build sheds to sell
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* Charge for Music / Plays
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* limited number of free family tickets or family attends rehearsals
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* Greenhouse
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* grow cash crops
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* grow food for cafeteria
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* space for local florists who could maintain the other plant areas over the weekends
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* Charge more for school lunches, encourage families to pack foods
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## Hillsboro Alone
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* Renegotiate contracts
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* Pay teachers more, merit-based, without union, encourage courageous, calculated, risk-taking teachers to bring about award-winning academic performance
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* Get out of Federal funding programs before they may, or may not, disappear or change
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* dramatically reduces administrative overhead
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* Downsize from three to two buildings
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* Makerspace
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* sponsored by Osram
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* Flea Markets and events
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* Attract people to local economy
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* local use of classrooms as meeting areas
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* premium charge for keep stuff in rooms between meetings
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* Osram off-site classes
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* National Guard off-site classrooms
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* First-aid
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* Scouts
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* Home school-ers co-op space
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* Home school-ers winter gym class area
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* Regional first-responder training site
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* charge extra for live-actors
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* Twitch streaming to live audiences
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* Online and new games tournaments
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* Attract people to local economy
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* Movie nights
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* black and white movies should be in public domain
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* sell popcorn
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* Use the building as a movie set
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* John Hughes style
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* nearby college movie-making courses
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* Attract people to local economy
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