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Making up snow days with longer days
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The district has to make up eight snow days. The school board had an online survey that asked community members what should be done to make them up. They decided to add 30 minutes to the school day starting Apr. 5.
Science teacher Eric Hall thinks that this is the best option.
“I think of the options we were given and it’s the best one,” Hall said.
Hall thinks that this will help students in the long run even if it sounds stupid now.
“I don’t know if it will see a huge benefit just because you add three or four minutes to a class. I think what it does though it gives the total class time during the day is longer and hopefully it will have an accumulative affect and you won’t notice it right away but hopefully over the last 8-10 weeks you will see a difference,” Hall said.
Hall thinks that adding days to the end of the school year is a better choice than adding time to the school day.
“I don’t think on a day to day basis the extra time is really going to increase student learning noticeably if at all, I just think the extra full days make more sense,” Hall said.
Hall does give credit to the school though for how they made the choice to add time to the end of the day.
“I think the school did a nice job asking for input, the teachers were given an opportunity and so was the community with an online survey,” Hall said.
Senior Charae Miller thinks differently. Miller thinks that adding time to the end of the day is a bad idea.
“I don’t think that it benefits students at all because our classes are already long,” Miller said.
Principal Doug Wheeler doesn’t really have an opinion on the way the school board handled the snow days.
“I think that you know they are responding to the community’s desire not to go four extra days,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler thinks that there aren’t many benefits to the way the school is making the days up.
“Really the only benefit is that they won’t have to go that third week of June to school,” Wheeler said.