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Show School 111 Benin On Aug. 29 By ROSELYN KIRK As August 29, the day for the school opening nears, Davis County School District officials say that, while construction cons-truction is near completion at most schools, two additions may not be finished when school opens. DR. JOHN S. White, assistant assis-tant Superintendent, said the addition at Woods Cross High School, 600 West 220 South, Woods Cross, and Boulton Elementary School, 2611 South Orchard Drive, Bountiful, Boun-tiful, will probably not make the construction deadline. Dr. White said that district supervisors are checking with each school every day to evaluate where construction stands in regard to the four additions being added to elementary schools and the one addition being completed at the only secondary school. Woods Cross High School. HE SAID the district had been assured earlier by all contractors that construction on the building would be finished by Aug. 15, but the plumbing strike has slowed ' construction. Dr. White said the new E.G. King School on Rainbow Drive in Layton is complete and ready for occupancy. Additions Ad-ditions to the Bountiful Elementary School at 1620 South and 50 West is also complete. The South Clearfield Clear-field Elementary addition at 990 East 700 South is "virtually "vir-tually complete," Dr. White said and he expects that the addition to the West Bountiful Elementary School, 760 West 400 North, West Bountiful, will make the deadline. DR. WHITE said that the Boulton School will probably not come in under the wire although it should "be substantially subs-tantially complete by the time school opens." If any of these schools do not make the opening deadline. Dr. White says that the district has an "alternate plan." "We will have school and there will be a place for every student," he said. Both Dr. White and Gayle Stevenson, assistant superintendent, superin-tendent, said that portions of Woods Cross High School will not be complete on the opening open-ing day. PARES Curtis, Woods Cross Principal, said that the auto shops and individual craft areas will not be ready although they will be completed soon after school opens. The science pod and the industrial art pod, an area which includes 20 teacher stations, will be ready for student occupancy, he said. Mr. Curtis said, although the auto shop and industrial crafts areas won't be complete, the school will have ample room in other areas, to provide class rooms for those students. WOODS Cross High School plans to enroll around 1200 to 1300 students this year. Mr. Curtis said the 1264 letters had been sent out to students that have attended Woods Cross and the junior high schools feeding into Woods Cross. Three classes-ninth, tenth and eleventh grades are scheduled into the school this year. Mr. Stevenson also pointed out that schools will begin earlier this year. The time change will mean that secondary secon-dary school will begin 20 minutes earlier, while elementary school time will be moved up 15 minutes. JUNIOR highs and high schools will begin at 8: 10 instead ins-tead of 8:30 and will end at 2: 40, 20 minutes earlier. Elementary school will 1 begin at 8:45, instead of 8:30 and end at 3: 15. MR. Stevenson listed several reasons for the earlier starting time, saying that secondary students have a greater demand on their time and need to go to work earlier. With the early starting start-ing time some students involved in-volved in the work experience program can be dismissed at noon to meet job commitments commit-ments that are tied into their school program. He cited another reason for the change was getting students when they're fresher, more wide awake." The early start will also be an advantage in activities and athletic events, he said, which can now be more easily scheduled after school. IN addition, the change will put Davis District "in harmony har-mony with other school districts," dis-tricts," he said. Mr. Stevenson said that buses must be correlated between secondary and elementary schools so that the same buses can be used to take students to both schools. |