In addition to teaching, he became Dayton High's parent liaison this year. Along with Debbie Scholer, director of the Youth Services Center, he started the Moonlight Academy, in which parents and students come to the school four nights a week. On Mondays, they exercise to a Richard Simmons tape. Tuesdays are craft nights. The hall walks are more fun than meetings but serve the same purpose, Mr. Spencer says.
People talk about the school and brainstorm ideas like the flower show.
The school district paid for a chain-link fence to protect his greenhouse from vandalism. He has been pleased by the show of respect. I planted these. Karen Samples is the Kentucky columnist for the Enquirer . The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.