Heritage Honor Roll changes discussed at recent board meeting, co-op with Villa Grove renewed

Honor roll changes at the Heritage School District are not happening—not yet anyway.

At the November school board meeting the board discussed a teacher leadership committee recommendation that suggested moving high honors from 3.5 to 3.85 on the honor roll and moving honors from 3.9 to 3.5.

Superintendent Tom Davis said that using first quarter grade point averages for the 158 students he found that 100 students qualified for one or the other award on the honor roll under the current system. If the changes were implemented that would lower to 60.

“The board did not seem favorable to the changes at this time,” Davis said. “So I recommended the teacher leadership to have a representative to come to a future meeting to discuss the criteria and rationale for changes to the handbook.”

Also at the meeting, Heritage voted to renew their coop with Villa Grove.

The coop will include the sports currently in the coop. The schools do not coop volleyball or softball.

“I was very happy with the fall sports season,” Davis said.

Davis said football made the playoffs, Villa Grove volleyball and Heritage played a tough match to end the last LOVC season while both teams had successful seasons. VGH golf also had a great season, including a win over St. Joseph-Ogden, Davis said.

“So all in all, very positive,” he said.

Davis said he expects more of the same during the winter months with boys basketball off to a 3-1 start and girls basketball having a record of 3-2.