We've got new details today about the newly renamed Hilburn Drive Academy.
During today's weekly press briefing, Tata said the school will operate on a traditional calendar. This came after parents were surveyed on the calendar they wanted for the middle school grades that will be phased in over the next three years.
Hilburn will continue to offer its new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) theme. But it will also become part of Wake's Global Schools Network where the focus is on languages, in this case Spanish.
Additional program elements will be brought to the Nov. 22 school board meeting.
Hilburn will operate on an 8:05 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. bell schedule.
The school will add sixth-grade next year with seventh- and eighth-grades being added in the following years. The seventh- and eighth-graders will get bus service to Leesville Road Middle to try out and participate in athletics.
Comments
Bell schedule
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 14:00 — Dove314If the bell schedule at LRMS dismisses at 3 then the idea of kids travelling to LRMS for activities and sports could work. Don't know the bell schedule so just figure to point out in case, if the opposite is true, then having Hillburn release 20 minutes after Leesville and then have to travel to Leesville for sports, etc. is going to be prohibitive by and large to participation. Most practices and rehearsals will have been well underway by 30 minutes after the end of day at Leesville. Some clubs will have concluded before the Hillburn kids can even arrive.
Actually
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 14:05 — trekkeroneMy read of the press release is that Hilburn will dismiss at 2:50, 10 minutes BEFORE Leesville Middle dismisses at 3:00. The schools are only 3-4 minutes apart. I imagine a bus or two would take Hilburn players on the 5 min. ride to Leesville. These kids could actually be earlier than Leesville's own for practices and games! Very smart.
Board action not required
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 13:28 — trekkeroneTata is treating it like a done deal because it is. Since Hilburn is already on a traditional calendar, he doesn't need Board members' approval because there is no calendar change for the school. I am quite sure he ran all of these details past Board (majority) members before finalizing these decisions.
and yet he stated publicly
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 13:47 — jeannie84and yet he stated publicly -- at Deborah Prickett's Board Advisory Council meeting in October -- that the decision about Hilburn's calendar was a "Board-level decision" -- and where is the transparency? aren't the survey results public information?
So the sixth graders...
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 12:47 — bpuli9999will have a unique schedule? I think Leesville operates on a 730-215 schedule. Are there any other middle schools that run on this sort of a schedule?
Leesville Elementary runs from ...
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 13:53 — midtownmom9:15-3:45; middle is 8:15-3:00; and high school is 7:25-2:18.
Tata said the calendar
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:03 — xmarkspot62Tata said the calendar decision was to be made by the Board. When did that happen?
I don't know but Tata is
Fri, 11/04/2011 - 12:00 — KeungHui (author)I don't know but Tata is treating it like a done deal. We'll see it it's brought up at the Nov. 22 board meeting.