SEP Students React to Later Start Date for School Year

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Izzy Schrock
Convergence Editor
     Iowa’s Department of Education has stated that they will no longer automatically grant waivers to school districts wanting to start earlier than the week of September 1. The only exception to this is if the school can make a strong case that starting later would have significant damaging effects of its students learning (read: highly unlikely).
 Junior Brendan Anderson says the later calendar start wouldn’t really matter to him, he’s always ready for when school starts. Many students like the postponed start date so they have time to go to the Iowa State Fair and relax and prepare for school the week after.
“[I go to the Fair] everyday, at least every night,” said sophomore Aspen Phillips. The Iowa State Fair, lasting from August 13-23 in 2015, is filled with Southeast Polk students.
“We have a lot of student involvement, with the shuttle and FFA,” said sophomore McKenna Cox.  With the postponed date, many people are worried about the school year going into mid-June. Possible solutions that have been offered include having less frequent late starts or longer school days.
“Staying later wouldn’t really affect me because I’m already here till 4 [everyday]. I would be sad though, cause I love late starts,” said Anderson. Many students are attached to late starts and do not want to part with them.  If the school really were going out on a limb, they could attempt to count the hours of schooling, not days.
“You can go by days or hours, and if we went by hours we could have less days,” said Philips.

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