Georgetown board OKs open-lunch incentive proposal

GEORGETOWN – School officials said Monday that keeping Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School students in the building at lunchtime is working well, but students may get to leave campus on a limited basis next year as part of an incentive program.

Georgetown-Ridge Farm High had an open campus at lunchtime until the start of the 2007-08 school year, when the rules were changed to keep all students at school during lunchtime as a way to better monitor students and to try to reduce the number of students who were late to afternoon classes or skipped them.

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