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Show School Early or Late? Calendar Survey Asks Parents of the Alpine School District are being surveyed next week, May 3, to determine if they want school to start before or after Labor Day. The district needs the information so it can make future school calendars. Administrative Assistant Harold Jacklin said that every student in the district will take a survey home on Monday, May 3, and students are requested to return the survey to the school by Wednesday, Wed-nesday, May 5. Action by the board will take place at the regular May Board Meeting. Other questions to be asked on the survey are: Whether to eliminate days out of school for the Deer Hunt, Presidents' Day and Spring Vacation; number of days out of school for Christmas holiday; should teachers instructional in-structional improvement day be on a Saturday. Another item on the survey is a question concerning Spring Vacation, asking if parents want it to always coincide with Easter - even though Easter is occasionally in March. Also, parents will be given the opportunity to vote on coordinating coor-dinating Alpine Districts' school calendar with Nebo, Provo and Jordan District's calendars. Utah State law requires 180 days of attendance for students with an extra two working days for teachers. In a special board meeting held March 9, the board members requested Dr. Max B. Welcker, Superintendent of Alpine Schools, to investigate guidelines for setting set-ting the school calendar in the hopes of making a policy for the district. Jacklin reported that faculty representatives of AEA and the PTA will be responsible for compiling the data. "By May 20, the PTA Regional Council, AEA and district administrators will prepare a recommendation for consideration by the Board of Education at their regular monthly mon-thly meeting, Tuesday, May 25," he said. |