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School Board Hears Plans for Student Store

Tue, Dec 21, 2010

Students in one HCS class are going into business to learn about business.

At tonight's HCS Board of Education meeting, the board viewed a presentation by members of the computer accounting class and its teacher, Kathryn Roy, about plans to create a student-run school store called The Knight's Knook. Details were outlined in a video made by the students and questions were answered by three of them who were at the meeting.

Plans call for the store to sell school merchandise -- shirts, hats, sweat pants -- and other items needed during the school day. It would be open before and after school and during the lunch hour.

One of the students, Joe Murphy, said members of the class visited three other nearby schools that already have student-run stores: VVS, Oneida and Stockbridge Valley.

He was joined at the meeting by Nicolle Holcomb and Colleen Carroccio.

The students expect to apply to the Hamilton Emerald Foundation for the $6,500 they need for start-up costs. They plan to put profits back into the store or possibly donate to a charity.

They told the board they hope to have The Knights' Knook open and operating before the end of the school year.

Also during the meeting, the board:

+ approved allowing students from the Westmoreland district to play on the HCS hockey team. The board also set the fees for hockey at $700 for players outside the district (there are 11 this season) and $200 for students in the district (there are eight).

+ approved staff and volunteers for the spring musical, Anything Goes, which will be presented march 25 and 26.

+ accepted a donation of $23,399 from the Hamilton Emerald Foundation.

+ approved a trip to Montreal April 18-20 for the French and Spanish clubs;

+ and heard that the Board of Reagents is proposing the state increase the length of the school year from 180 days to 200 days.

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