During the May Northwestern Lehigh School Board meeting, Cory Reinhard, president of Circle of Season Charter School, asked if he could have five people talk one minute each, instead of him talking for 5 minutes.

That request received approval.

Lilth Uhler asked the school board to renew the charter.

Uhler said she travels two hours a day providing transportation for her son.

She is a math tutor and said they need real world applications to understand.

“Students ask when am I going to use this,” Uhler said. “We show how building a bench teaches geometry.

“My son thrives on these applications.”

Sai Yang said Circle of Seasons was an answer to their prayers.

“As a registered nurse I can’t stress enough that teaching is done with my child’s physical and emotional needs considered,” Yang said. “The learning is unique. Circle of Seasons teaches to the spirit.

“Our daughter has a curriculum she needs to succeed.

Connie Boyer said they lived in Parkland but committed to go to Circle of Seasons.

“We chose this district so our child will be in Northwestern for the upper grades,” Boyer said.

Dr. Chris Habek said his daughter’s learning style didn’t fit the regular school.

“She became a happy outgoing child at Circle of Seasons,” Habek said. “The issue is that operating procedures may be delinquent in some respects, but consider the children who are here and those who are not.

Dr. David Roy said his kindergarten twins were extremely scared and started crying.

“Now they are so excited and it is like a family,” Roy said.

An older child did poorly in math so the twins did not want to learn math but they came home enjoying it.

“My son has a hard time but he is doing hard things,” Roy said. “He learned to knit and can recite a 45-minute sermon while he knits.”

At the end of the meeting Eunice Matos said parents are becoming more committed spending their own time and money.

“We like their curriculum and methods of teaching,” Matos said.

Dr. Tabetha Bernstein-Danis said a charter school is a lab for ideas.

“Circle of Seasons creates things,” Bernstein-Danis said. “They sing. They provide different ways of learning.

“It should work in concert with the district.”

Dr. Darin Mazepa said the Northwestern board is tremendous.

“Thank you for having us as part of your district,” Mazepa said. “We invite you to come to our school and see what happens.”

Dr. Kimberly Heiman said she looked at public schools and private schools and found Circle of Seasons the best.

Kids accompanied their parents. Many of them held posters supporting the charter school.

In other matters, following the April Northwestern Lehigh School Board meeting, David Laudenslager said he thought the differences about the baseball booster club had been resolved.

However, during the May 11 meeting, the decision was made to disband the booster club immediately.

Superintendent Mary Anne Wright said parents are part of the booster club, which was founded Sept. 20, 2001.

“ I said we’re in the guidelines. We emailed parents,” Laudenslager said. “We had six fundraisers. I have meeting minutes if you want to see them. If you vote to disband, it is a slap in the face for those who help.”

The new club, “Aevidum,” is designed to promote caring and compassion.

Advisors are Kate Kitz, David Combs and Nicole Zimmerman. Students presenting were Hayden Bobbyn, Makenna Long, Brianna Werley and Grace Horn.

They had a three-day Easter egg hunt with the plastic eggs filled with uplifting messages and chocolate kisses. The eggs were hidden randomly around the school.

There was a day of silence when students did not speak except to teachers and only if asked.

Cupcakes and conversation closed out the day. This was to help students who have difficulty speaking up. A comfortable environment was created to help them.

Each member has two days of training.

The Northwestern Lehigh Education Foundation gave its annual report for 2015. It acknowledges donors and talks about the activities and work in school.

A check was presented for $219,701 by Clare Coupe Scott. There will be another $15,000 to go toward mini grants for a total of $855,000.

Next year total donations may go over $1 million.

“We are always looking for sponsorships and businesses can have the benefit of giving through the Educational Tax Credit Program, said Scott.

The foundation will be having a 5K run the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend at Ontelaunee Park.

Fisher said she should tell the foundation board the school is indebted to them.