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Show IEdlmKDsaitnciDim XV Egg! t"ir "vwL Parents to go Back to School by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer Today, Nov. 7, is going to be a busy day at Park City High School. Report cards come out in the morning. mor-ning. And after the school dedicates its new wing at 7 p.m., Back-to-School Night will begin for the parents. Ralph Hale, president of the school board, and James Clahane, student body president, will speak at the dedication. "It will be a time to express our appreciation to the district administration ad-ministration as well as the patrons of the high school," said Hal Smith, vice principal. "Back-to-School Night is for the parents. They will have the oppor- tunity to run through their child's schedule by spending about 10 minutes in each of the student's seven (class) periods. "Then there will be a little soiree." .Smith recommended that, since report cards are always "such a cheering point," if parents have a concern about their child's report, they should make an appointment with the teacher to talk about it. The tight time-frame of Back-to-School Night will not allow discussions of grades, he said. The concept of building a new wing was formulated two years ago by principal Jack Dozier and science teacher Bill Kahn, Smith said. Kahn designed the chemistry lab and associated science classrooms. The wing represents an expenditure expen-diture of nearly $1 million. It contains con-tains a chemistry lab, a physics lab, a physical science area and, on the north side, four classrooms and a computer lab. The north side of the building was ready for students to use when school opened last month. Final work in the hall and laboratories was not completed until about two weeks ago. "Building was ahead of schedule. The completion date was Dec. 1. Under the incentive plan, every day they finished early was worth a certain cer-tain amount, which probably pushed things along," Smith said. He praised the new building, saying say-ing it was desperately needed. "We were so inadequate before, with the way the lab in the old area was set up. We had to take students to the University of Utah for their physics labs. We just didn't have the equipment or space," he said. "Now the new islands (freestanding (freestan-ding work areas in the lab) make experiment ex-periment space more available to students and they won't miss periods of school because theyare traveling to the U of U." Aside from some fairly sophisticated equipment for the chemistry and physics students, there is a greenhouse that stretches between two classrooms where botanical studies can be pursued. Five years ago, one computer was available for use by the entire school. The new computer lab now features about 25 units. |