FOSS STEPPING DOWN AS SUPERINTENDENT IN MENNO

The 2024-25 school year will be the last in Menno for Kory Foss.

The district superintendent announced Monday morning, Jan. 6, that he has accepted the position of superintendent with the Elkton School District and will be leaving Menno with his family following the conclusion of this school year. Foss told The Courier the decision to leave Menno for Elkton was a “family decision” and a difficult one at that.

“This is a place I love and appreciate,” Foss said of the Menno School District and community. “We found a home here for the past five years and I’ll always be grateful for that.

“Sometimes there are tough choices, but you try and make the ones that your feel are the best for your family,” Foss continued. “Elkton really gave us that feeling.”

The Menno School Board of Education is expected to accept Foss’ resignation at its regular monthly meeting scheduled for Monday, Jan. 13.

Foss came to Menno with his wife, Danielle, and their two young children after being hired as the secondary principal beginning with the 2020-21 school year — the same year that Tom Rice was hired as the new superintendent.

Foss was named the district’s top administrator in the fall of 2022 following the school board’s decision not to renew Rice’s contract. Danielle Foss has also been employed by the Menno School District as the second-grade teacher.

Whoever replaces Foss will be the fifth superintendent since Dr. Chris Christensen’s final year in the fall of 2015. Menno was then served by Dr. Charlene Crosswait from the fall of 2016 through the spring of 2020, when the board of education chose to take its leadership in another direction.

Rice served from the fall of 2020 until he was non-renewed in 2022, and Foss has been the superintendent since the fall of 2022.