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Show School opening in Iron County set for August 28 Schools will open in Iron County on Thursday, August 28, and close on May 28, which after frequent holidays, will provide 180 days of school for the students, and 1S5 "working" "work-ing" days for the teachers. This is revealed in the school calendar released this week by Clair Morris, now Superintendent Superintend-ent of Iron County Schools. Teachers will report for an institute on Monday, August 25, and Tuesday and Wednesday, Wednes-day, August 26 and 27, will be devoted to orientation of teachers work in the schools. Then after the students report on Thursday they will have two days of school before their first holiday, Labor Day, Mon. day, Sept. 1. After Labor Day the next break in school will not come until the close of school Wednesday Wed-nesday atternoon, October 8, and the teachers will attend the Utah Education Association Associa-tion (U. E. A.) Convention in Salt Lake City on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 9 and 10. Returning to school on Mon-day, Mon-day, Oct. 13, school will run for five days. Then with the annual deer hunting season opening on Oct. 18 (Saturday) school will remain closed on ivionaay, Oct. 20, so the teachers teach-ers can have an extra day to hunt deer. The next holiday will be for i'.ianksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, with the holiday continuing ..ii'ough Friday and school resuming re-suming the following Monday. Schools will close for the Christmas ' vacation . at the close of regular classes on Tuesday, December 23, and re. main closed until Monday, January 5. On Friday, January 1 23, schools will again be ' closed for a Mid-Year Institute. Insti-tute. j No holiday is listed for Feb-I Feb-I ruary, but Spring Vacation will be taken in March. Parowan Paro-wan and Escalante Valley Schools will be closed for I Spring Vacation on March 5 I and 6, while Spring Vacation in the Cedar City schools will be a week later, March 12 and 13- , Schools will close for the year on May 28, but the teachers teach-ers must remain one more day to complete reports. The 180 days of school will be divided through the months of the school year as follows: August, 2; September, 21; October, Oc-tober, 20; November, 18; December, De-cember, 17; January, 20; Feb-, ruary, 20; March, 20; April, 22; and May 20. The extra five ; days on which the teachers will work, include three days n August for institute and orientation, or-ientation, one day in January for mid-year institute, and one day in May for final reports. |