Beecher School District 200U will be looking for another principal.
But it has some time to find one.
A lot of time.
For the second time in 2026, a principal in the three-school district announced plans to leave. The board approved a final retirement contract of high school principal Mike Meyer at the May 13 meeting.
His retirement, however, is not immediate. It will begin after he serves three more years in the district.
Earlier this year, elementary school Principal Nicole Black resigned her post and the board hired Grant Park Assistant Principal Kelly Toppen, who will begin her new job in July.
Cell phone punishment
Meyer convinced the board to vote for a stricter punishment for violating cell phone rules.
The first offense will be a warning. But the second offense will be harsher.
“The teacher will confiscate the phone and take it to the office,” he said. “The student will pick it up at the end of the day. The teacher will call a family member and e-mail the dean and the dean will take care of everything after that.”
Students at the high school are only allowed to use cell phones before and after school and during passing periods in the hall. Cell phones will not be used in the classroom unless a teacher gives permission and is monitoring it.
Summer projects
Superintendent Jack Gaham listed summer projects to be started in June.
“With the elementary school, we have the massive project of the windows getting done,” he said. “We also have the scrubbing and the waxing getting done.
“At the junior high, we are going to take the 20 years of wax and have them stripped down to their origin and start it fresh at the base level.”
The junior high will also have its outdoor digital sign removed and it will not be replaced.
At the high school, the district avoided a financial bombshell with its high school gym floors.
Representatives from Wisconsin-based Stalker Sports Floors inspected the gym floors and they told Gaham the gym floors will not have to be sanded down – a scrubbing should fix some of the problems it has recently experienced.
“It’s going to cost $9,200,” Gaham said. “I thought it was going to be a six-figure fix.”
Coming and going
The board approved the employment of Allison Goedke as elementary school kindergarten teacher.
It gave the green light to hire Margaret Stein as first grade teacher.
Joshua Groesser was hired as a special education teacher.
The board acknowledged the resignation of Thomas Hynes as fulltime bus driver.