New high school hinges

REPLACEMENT
SCHOOL for Skeena Jr.
Secondary probably won't
get built unless the school
board agrees it will have an
extended day.

The education ministry is
pushing the idea of extended
days in order to reduce the
size of schools being built,
while expanding their ca-
pacily.

Education minister Paul
Ramsey wrote to school
board chair George
Neumann in the beginning
of April, saying $1 million
in planning, monies
wouldn't be released until
the board met some condi-
tions. Those are that, ‘“‘the
board adopt a resolution
agreeing to incorporate an
extended day schedule into
the school, prior to proceed-
ing with the design,”’

The school board’s ad-
visory committee for Ter-
mace has set up a separate
committee to look at what’s
involved in replacing
Skeena.

A wide variety of groups
will be represented, includ-
ing parents, teachers and
First Nations. Trustee Stew
Christensen will temporarily
head the commiltce until it
appoints a permanent head.

Some teachers at Skeena
aren't sure it’s even worth
building a new school. Ed
Papais says he'd like to see
the new commitiee look at
renovating the current
school which is much bigger
than any new school would
be.

Northem

students are

practically trapped in school
months

during four of

winter, and he says its im-
portant they have enough
space so they don’t get
cabin fever.

Whatever the final out-
come, the coramittee will be
exploring the concept of ex-
tended days, -

Christensen didn't know
how an extended day would
work in Terrace, and ack-
nowledged that many
people were concerned.

in schools with an ex-
tended day, the hours are
typically 7:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m,

Students could either be
present for the whole day,
with a number of spare or
study biocks. Or students
could come in shifts, with
one group attending early
morming and another after
lunch.

There are a variety of
ways to have extended days,
with a few schools using all
classrooms and labs all day

:

Stew Christensen

students and dropping them
off at their respective
schools. If the secondary
schools starts an hour ear-
lier, making one run is no

Longer school days a requirement by
the province in order for It to approve

school construction.

long. Most schools with ex-
tended days have lower use
times in off-peak hours.

It sounds great in theory.
But there are a number of
problems thii the Skeena re-
placement committee will
have to work through.

One of the big ones for a
tural city like Terrace is
busing. Some buses only
make one run along a given
route, picking up both
elementary and secondary

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So savings in capital costs
could be reduced by in-
creased busing costs.

Keeping students for a
longer day means they'll
have more spare hours than
is now the case. Depending
on the design of the school
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dents on spares, or there
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violence and vandalism.

‘T really have to wonder
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“There’s only so much
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The education ministry
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corporating cafeterias into
schools lately either, he
added,

Exwa-curricular activities
could also suffer under an
extended day. Sports and
clubs could be very cumber-
some tO arrange, and stu-
dents who finish early might
be forced to wait around un-
til the rest of classes finish.

Extra-curricular activities
are often considered an in-
centive for at-risk students
tostayinschool. — -

Another option is for half
the student body to go to
school from 7:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. The other half
would attend fom 12:30-
5:30 p.m.

But this option could dis-
mupt family schedules, result
in eXtra maintenance costs
and wreak havoc with extra-
curricular activities,

If the split was along age
lines, such as having a jun-
ior secondary in the mom-
ing and senior classes in the
afternoon, then senior stu-
dents coulda’t act as role
models for younger ones.

These are just some of the
problems facing the replace-
ment committee as it
wrestles with new govert-
ment guidelines.

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