During last night’s school board meeting, Indiana Area School District Superintendent Rob Heinrich addressed some of the concerns parents brought up at the October 12th meeting.
Parents were worried about behaviors students at East Pike were exhibiting, including using vulgar language, throwing chairs and violence towards teachers and children. In a statement issued on Monday, and read during the meeting, Superintendent Heinrich said that they have made the situation a priority and “have taken several steps to strengthen our response and provide additional support at East Pike,” including realigning resources to increase emotional support services to provide proactive behavioral interventions and for behavioral responses. The central administration will also have an increased presence to observe and assist, along with identify areas that need adjustments. Heinrich added in his statement that they are establishing a reporting process to help identify issues and engaged ARIN’s TaC Team to make additional training, coaching and support available to the staff.
Heinrich said after the meeting that it’s not going to be an instantaneous fix.
Another effort was announced by board member Eric Brocious, the chair of the Academic/Extracirricular Activity committee. He announced that the administration will provide the committee monthly reports on the progress on all buildings on these issues.
You can read Superintendent Heinrich’s full statement and watch the full board meeting by clicking on the appropriate links below.
East Pike Behavioral Response Presentation for the 10-26-26 Board meeting
