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The Sun and News, Saturday, August 28, 2021/ Page 19

Caledonia’s realignment takes effect


Greg Chandler
Staff Writer
Caledonia Community
Schools kicked off its first
week of classes this week
under the district’s new
realignment plan.


After years of two middle
schools in the district serving
students in the sixth through
eighth grades, Kraft
Meadows and Duncan Lake
schools now serve separate
student bodies. Kraft

Meadows is now an interme-
diate school, serving fifth-
and sixth-grade students,
while Duncan Lake remains
a middle school, housing stu-
dents in the seventh and
eighth grades. Elementary
buildings in the district are
now kindergarten through
fourth grade.
At Paris Ridge Elementary
School, students continued
an annual tradition with a
flag-raising ceremony.
“The ceremony usually
occurs during the first week
of school, after classrooms
have had time to establish
some routines, before they
come together as a whole
school for the first time,”
Paris Ridge Principal Kris
Vydareny wrote to the Sun
and News. “New staff mem-
bers are introduced, school-
wide expectations are set for
the year and students are
taught the ‘official’ Paris
Ridge cheer.”
Staff members assist in the
raising of the school flag,
Vydareny said.
“The Paris Ridge flag flies
under our American flag
each day reminding staff and
students that they are both
part of a greater community
(our nation) as well as their
school community,” he said.
“The event usually involves
some loud chanting and defi-
nitely some music – provid-
ing an energizing launch into
the new year. This ceremony
is repeated toward the end of
the school year where they
say goodbye to staff and stu-
dents who are leaving and
lower the flag symbolizing
the closing of the school
year.
“It is an exciting time for
both staff and students to
welcome in the new school
year.”
At Caledonia High School,
new Principal Bill Martin
began his duties. Martin was
hired by the school board
earlier this month after he
had been a middle school
principal in the Grand Rapids
Public Schools.
At Dutton Elementary
School, classes had to be
reduced to half-day this week
because of the heat. Students
were released at noon each
day. In a letter that went out
earlier this week,
Superintendent Dr. Dedrick
Martin said that Dutton is the
one school in the district that

has limited or no air condi-
tioning.
“While we are fortunate to
have recently passed a bond
that will rectify this issue in
the future, we currently must
rely on fans and a limited
number of portable air condi-
tioners for this location on
high heat/high humidity
days,” Martin wrote in the
letter. “A combination of
portable air conditioning
units and fans will continue
to be utilized to help keep the
heat from reaching danger-
ous levels within the build-
ings on most hot days.”
The current Dutton
Elementary is slated to be
closed at the end of the 2023-
24 school year. A new Dutton
Elementary School is pro-
posed to open in the fall of
2024 in the area of 76th
Street and Patterson Road.
Martin said that, while the
first couple of days had its
challenges as far as transpor-
tation of students, the system

showed improvement the
rest of the week.
“I expect that, by the end

of next week, we should be
in a nice groove,” he said.

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Students at Paris Ridge Elementary School kick off the school year with their tra-
ditional flag-raising ceremony.

Teacher Todd DeJong gives instructions to his sixth-
grade English and language arts class at Kraft Meadows
Intermediate School.

Students in Rebecca Wood’s sixth-grade English and language arts class at Kraft
Meadows Intermediate School work on a lesson tied to Grant Wood’s “American
Gothic” painting.

New Caledonia High School Principal Bill Martin, right, shares a laugh with
Assistant Principal Jim Crites on the first day of classes.
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