An Oil City High School student was recognized for civic knowledge at Monday’s Oil City School Board meeting.
Junior Jackson Dilks was honored by Superintendent Lynda Weller for achieving a perfect score on the Assessment of Civic Knowledge, a test all Pennsylvania public school students are required to take between seventh and 12th grades.
Weller said Dilks was the lone student last year to have a perfect score on the assessment.
Weller also told the board during Monday’s brief work session that active shooter drills were conducted Monday with the Oil City Police Department in all the district’s elementary schools.
The board’s monthly voting meeting will be held next week, and at that session the panel is expected to decide whether to approve the recommendation from the board’s curriculum committee that the PPC Violence Free Network’s We Care Elementary and SAFE-T lessons on sexual harassment and bullying be taught at the elementary and middle school levels.
The We Care and SAFE-T lessons were previously taught in the Oil City elementary schools and middle school from the fall of 2021 to March of this year.
But the content of the lessons raised concerns, and the board suspended the remaining lessons in March for the rest of the last school year.
Curriculum committee members said at their meeting last week that even after deciding to recommend the PPC program they still had several questions about the lessons.
