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On Tuesday December 5th, the Centerville school board held a meeting in the gym of Centerville High school.

Many teachers and parents attended the meeting, it was the largest meeting held in over a year at the school. The evening began with a presentation from the high school's debate team. The team had made it to the regional semi-finals in the competition where they hold debates with other schools from the region.

The team will go to the championship round next month. The board also gave a special honor to senior student Jay Cranston, for being in the top 500 students in the nation to score over 1500 on their SAT's. Cranston was presented with an award for his great achievement.

"This is a great honor. It took a lot of hard work but it was worthit," said Cranston.

From there the board took questions from the teachers and the parents in the audience about any concerns they might have. The board has been thinking about cutting the schools district's budget, which may means a cut in teachers. Board member Jane Harmon said the school district is facing a five million dollar difference between the money needed to fund the schools and the money that is actually available. Harmon said if the money isn't found someteachers may have to belaid off and some school programs like team sports and music programs may have to be cut. Many parents talked to the board trying to convince them not to make this decision. They talked about how the teachers are very good and how their children have grown very close to them.

As a Centerville graduate I got to know a lot of the teachers in the centerville school district. Personally I would not get rid of any of these teachers they are all very hard working and are always looking out for the students.

Board member Jane Harmon said in order to make up the money the scvhool district may have to raise property taxes, but many people in thge audience booed when she said this. "I'm not saying this is automatically going to happen, but it may be something we have to look at," Harmon told the crowd, and somore more people booed.

Th meeting was ajourned and afterwards Principle Tom Berkson said, "I just hope we can solve this budget problem as fast as we solved the other one."