Friday's Internet Edition, May 09, 2008.
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The board of education last week unanimously approved a plan to shift the school day by 15 minutes, with students starting school at 8:30 a.m.
Students at Davie High will end their day at 3:20, while those at the Early College (DCECHS) will end at 3:11.
The change was needed for several reasons, according to the principals of both schools.
Jinda Haynes, principal at DCECHS, said, “Our big issue was scheduling. Many, if not most, early colleges across the state have later start/stop times. Earlier in the semester, we began talking with the folks at the community college about course offerings and scheduling for next year. Very quickly, we saw that scheduling was going to be difficult, if not impossible, with the bus schedule and the way that the college course blocks chop the day into chunks of time.
“Based on this year’s start/stop times, we were left with a year-long high school course at the end of the day that was only 40 minutes long. Although early colleges are not held as tightly to the required amount of seat time [as other high schools], our teachers knew they couldn’t cover the curriculum effectively with only 40 minutes.”
Haynes said even after trying to ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.