Nespelem School moves to four-day week

 

Last updated 8/25/2021 at 6:30am



Nespelem School students will go to work like many of their parents do — four days a week — after the school board voted Monday night to approve the new schedule that ends the week on Thursday instead of Friday.

Principal/Superintendent Effie Dean told the Nespelem School Board that, in applying for a variance from the state to allow the schedule change, she explained that the proposed schedule would actually give students 20% more time in school using longer days.

The change is good for the community, too, she said she told the state, because most people employed at the Colville Tribes work “four 10s,” four days a week, 10 hours a day.

Dean told the school board that 20% extra “face time” with students “is huge.”

At the school board’s earlier direction, Dean said staff had tried to survey all parents, reaching many, but not others. “They said they were really looking forward to having more time with their children,” Dean reported. “That made my heart happy.”

Students will be at school from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Teachers will work from 7 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Director Nancy Armstrong-Montes said she was glad students would be released by 3 p.m., which had been a concern for her in earlier discussions.

 

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