Starting this year, the Perry School District will have a new off-site learning environment designed to help a certain portion of the student body.

Creation of the “Success Room” was approved during the last school year by the Perry School Board, and it is ready to be implemented at the middle and high school level. Middle School Principal Shaun Kruger was instrumental in getting the “Success Room” off the ground, and he explains the thought process behind it. “It is something that we as an administrative team feel is necessary to benefit some of our students who just really struggle in a traditional setting. The traditional 8-9 period day with 25-30 students in the classroom, going to as many different teachers in a day. It just doesn’t work for some of our students, and they tell us that over and over and over by their actions. Whether it’s discipline, acting out, withdrawing, shutting down, not showing up for school, et cetera.”

To help the students Kruger mentioned, Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger says the Success Room will hopefully give them relief from the larger classroom setting. “It’s really going to help those kids that have struggled with a bigger environment, or they’ve struggled behaviorally in classes. So it’s going to help us in a couple ways: we’re going to be able to get more one-on-one attention with those kids that need that attention; but it’s also going to help those 24 other kids left in a classroom that may have been distracted by one kid’s behavior.”

The Success Room program will begin this year, and will be constantly monitored by the administration. It is located in the old Snap Fitness facility at the East Perry Plaza, which the District remodeled during the summer. There were some upfront costs to implement the program, as well as some recurring, but both Kruger and Marburger believe it will save the District a lot of money in the long term, by not having to send students to Woodward Academy.

To learn more about the upcoming year in the Perry School District, click the links below to listen to the Perry Fareway Let’s Talk Dallas County programs with Kruger, Marburger, Elementary Principal and Assistant Principal Ned Menke and Ryan Marzen, Superintendent Clark Wicks, and PACES Director Mary Hillman.

https://raccoonvalleyradio.com/2018/08/lets-talk-dallas-county-8132018-ned-menke-and-ryan-marzen/
https://raccoonvalleyradio.com/2018/08/lets-talk-dallas-county-8142018-clark-wicks/
https://raccoonvalleyradio.com/2018/08/lets-talk-dallas-county-8152018-shaun-kruger/
https://raccoonvalleyradio.com/2018/08/lets-talk-dallas-county-8162018-dan-marburger/
https://raccoonvalleyradio.com/2018/08/lets-talk-dallas-county-8202018-mary-hillman/