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The WakeEd blog is devoted to discussing and answering questions about the major issues facing the Wake County school system as it prepares to undergo historic changes. Will the new school board scrap the diversity policy in favor of neighborhood schools? Will year-round schools be converted back to a traditional calendar? How will the new board respond to growth and the school construction program?
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Adding more time to Enloe High School's day
Submitted by KeungHui on 06/03/2009 - 10:58
Enloe High School's bell schedule will change again and it could impact other schools in the process.
While the details are still being finalized, Enloe is expected to add another 10 minutes to the school day for the 2009-10 school year. This comes on top of the 10 minutes that the school board had agreed to add to Enloe's day as part of the districtwide bell schedule changes for this fall.
The new Enloe change creates additional transportation challenges.
As previously noted, Enloe had wanted a waiver from the requirement that it release students 2.5 hours early six Wednesdays a year. School officials were worried that these extra early release days would keep Enloe from meeting the state's requirement of 1,000 instructional hours per year.
But school board members wee leery of granting the waiver. They suggested changing Enloe's schedule to fit in the time.
On Tuesday, Enloe's waiver request was dropped. Chief Area Supt. Danny Barnes said Enloe is working with transportation to find ways to add time to the school day.
The details might be presented at the June 16 board meeting.
This school year, Enloe runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Enloe had been slated to go from 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. for this fall.
Don Haydon, chief facilities and operations officer, said Enloe may now run from 7:25 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for this fall.
The messy part is that Wake operates a three-tier bus system so many of the buses that serve Enloe also go to the schools that have later start and dismissal times.
Haydon said that the latest Enloe change likely wouldn't require adjusting the bell schedules for any other schools. But he said the buses might come a little later in the afternoon to pick up those second- and third-tier schools.
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Do you mean we need more
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 03:17 — ninaninaDo you mean we need more holidays so that students can enjoy their social life more? Hmm.. Then you need more opinion from parents. free classified ads |jobs|adjustable bed
Do HS have study halls
Thu, 06/04/2009 - 11:33 — jenmanDo HS have study halls anymore? I seem to recall having 7 or 8 periods in a day but one was study hall and one was PE.
8-period day
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 15:46 — Carolina_lemurThere are many classes at Enloe that are a "double-period" class. My daughter is only a freshman, but I think the AP level classes take two periods. If a student is active in music, art or drama, which includes many kids at Enloe, they sometimes choose to not take a lunch period to fit in the double period courses.
No lunch?
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 16:17 — momof2goodboysI would think there is some rule against not having a lunch? Maybe I should change my comments to "most kids" would do better to not have 8 classes a day.
There's no requirement that
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 16:54 — KeungHui (author)There's no requirement that students take a lunch period. A reason Enloe went to an 8-period day was to create an extra period. The hope was that students who weren't taking lunch in a seven-period day would use the extra period to eat. Instead, these uber-competitive students just used the extra period for another class.
OT: Swine Flu Case in Cary Middle School
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 14:42 — chaboardGot an automated robo-call from the principal about 30 minutes ago that there is a confirmed case of H1N1 in the school. Is this the first confirmed school case in Wake county?
http://wake.mync.com/site/wa
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 14:52 — AngelaWhttp://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news/story/35864/wake-county-middle-school-student-has-h1n1-virus
CARY, N.C. -
Wake County Public Schools is confirming that a student at Reedy Creek Middle School has been diagnosed with H1N1 (swine flu).
Parents were notified via voice message Wednesday afternoon. According to Wake County Schools spokesperson Michael Evans, school cleaning crews will be sanitizing the school Wednesday night.
Wake County Health Director Dr. Betsy Tilson appeared before the school board Tuesday night to say that the current policy would not call for a school to be closed in the event that a student had the H1N1 virus.
NBC 17 will be following the story and will provide updates as they become available.
To read more from Wake County Public Schools, click here.
http://www.wcpss.net/news/2009_june3_flu/
OT-Dillard Dr MS fight
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 13:18 — shank56New principal on board. Wonder if the same kids were fighting again???
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5271221/ Pepper spray used to break up fight at Raleigh middle school Updated: Today at 12:27 p.m. Raleigh, N.C. — A resource officer used pepper spray to break up a fight Wednesday morning at Dillard Drive Middle School, a school spokesman said. Greg Thomas, public information officer for the Wake County Public School System, said that four students were fighting in a cafeteria and refused to respond to several requests to stop. The resource officer used pepper spray to stop the fight, Thomas said, but other students in the area at the time might have been exposed to the fumes. School personnel called emergency workers, who were available to aid any students who asked for treatment after the spray was broadcast. Thomas did not know whether any students required treatment. The names of those involved in the fight were not released. Thomas said the four would be subject to disciplinary action, but did not specify what type of punishment they would face. Copyright 2009 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
An 8 period day schedule is
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 13:09 — George_SAn 8 period day schedule is a bit ridiculous. We only had 6 periods a day when I went to high school, which I think is about all the different classes any person can successfully handle in a day.
8 periods is way too much!
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 15:20 — momof2goodboysBlock scheduling may not be perfect, but at least you are only concentrating on 4 classes, maybe only 3 if one is a PE class, at a time. With 8, I would think it is hard to concentrate and keep up with what is going on in each class! If they choose to do this though, other schools should not be asked to change their schedule!
Hmm...
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 13:34 — Bob_SconceIIRC, my high school had 16 periods of 25 minutes each, with most classes being two periods long and some being three. That's enough time for six classes, lunch & study hall.
I'm not a fan of block scheduling, especially in math -- I have to believe that an 8 month break between math classes (or music classes, for that matter) is a very bad thing. Plus, "the brain can only hold what the butt can endure"; after about an hour, my learning went to zip; I needed the break between classes.
Other High Schools use block schedules
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 12:07 — FalcFrom the link
"Staff said that Enloe's challenge is that it operates on an 8-period day, unlike the block schedules used at the other high schools. Enloe has to factor in more time each day for class changes."
"School officials were
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 11:28 — SideburnsWhy is this only a concern for Enloe?
I mentioned it in the linked
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 15:38 — KeungHui (author)I mentioned it in the linked post in the article. The school has to schedule more time for class changes because of the 8-period day.