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Not a Cosmetic Change to Knoxville School District Calendar
The days students will be in class in the Knoxville School District won't change, but possible how or what they are taught could be.

That's because the Knoxville School Board recently altered the current school year calendar to reflect that the end of the semester at Knoxville's elementary and junior high schools will end with start of Christmas break. Up to now, that was only the case at Knoxville High School.

District-202 Superintendent Steve Wilder tells WGIL the move should hopefully have already been made by teachers.

"I think teachers have adjusted their lesson plans already, this is something we've talked about internally, actually a couple of months ago, I just didn't get it to the board agenda," Wilder said. "The biggest issue is at the high school and that approximate two week break between the end of the first semester and early beginning of christmas break."

"And I think with Christmas break, if you're going to do finals afterwards, you tend lose some of that information in the meantime and we would like to avoid that."

Wilder says that means the end of the semester will now be December 21st. An early dismissal day planned for January 6th to coincide with what was the end of the semester, Wilder says, now won't happen.

He says more and more schools are going to this type of a model, including in districts he worked in previously.
12 05 11 by Newsroom
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