Board of Ed Considers Whether to Approve $5,000 Gift for Ox Ridge School

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UPDATE: Water Main Break on Mansfield Fixed; Ox Ridge School Reopens Tuesday

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A proposed $5,000 gift for Ox Ridge School from a fifth-grader’s family was discussed by the Board of Education at a recent meeting. But the board had some qualms.

Luke Forshaw, principal at Ox Ridge School, said that the school was considering using the gift to improve the library/media center through furniture or equipment upgrades. However, the Board of Ed disagreed with that idea, as they saw several problems in accepting the gift. First, there was no definitive plan for the gift. Although Forshaw said the donation was going to be used for the library, there was no set plan, such as what the school would be buying, when the school would buy it, or even how the school would be using the gift.

Tokeneke School cafeteria received a perfect score of 100 in its most recent inspection on Jan. 22 after the school received an uncharacteristic “Poor” rating on Jan. 12, when a health inspector found food not being kept at the proper temperatures. Health Director David Knauf later said an item of equipment wasn’t keeping food at the right temperature, so the equipment was relpaced. Darienite.com previously reported on that inspection:

“Hamburgers and tater tots weren’t hot enough at the Tokeneke School cafeteria on Tuesday when a Darien Health Department sanitarian showed up for an inspection, according to the department.

Update 6:27 a.m., Tuesday

Ox Ridge elementary school students, who are going back to school Tuesday morning, didn’t even get a whole extra day off from Mondays water main break on Mansfield Avenue — they’ll have to make it up with a half day on March 28, the school district announced. Here’s the announcement from Darien Public Schools:

We are pleased to report that the water main has been fixed on Mansfield Avenue and that school will resume at Ox Ridge tomorrow on a regular schedule. Connecticut school law requires that students attend classes for 180 days. As a result of Ox Ridge students missing today, they are at 179 class days requiring them to make up one day of instruction. March 28 which was originally a professional development day for teachers will now be a half day of instruction for the students at Ox Ridge. Students will be picked up at their normal times and be released at 11:45 a.m. on March 28.

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Update 5:32 p.m., Monday:

The school district has made some changes to the bus route schedules by adding back some stops that had been removed in a new scheduling system. Superintendent of Schools Dan Brenner says the changes are “very limited.” The school district website will have updated information, he said, although as of this point the information on changes to bus route schedules is difficult to find on the website. (We just looked, and we couldn’t find it.) The information should be easier to find starting Tuesday, Brenner said. Original article:

Here’s the 2015-2016 Ox Ridge School bus route schedule from the school district:

2015-2016 Route times are estimated and will vary particularly in the beginning of the school year, during inclement weather and traffic congestion on I-95.