Feast your eyes upon one of LISD’s newest compositions, now containing new dates for bad weather days and week long breaks. Boxes, red checks, and numbers- it’s the 2013-2014 school calendar!

The LISD staff had to decide between having a late start or late end of the school year.

“They’re deciding on different calendars for LISD,” sophomore Travis Hinojosa said

Most people first look at the start and end dates.

“We get out too late in the year,” Biology teacher Victoria Schemmel said.

Carrying the first semester past winter break can present a problem for accelerated block, because the four class periods are an hour and a half and normally eighteen weeks long. This might interfere with certain assignments in certain classes.

“We should start earlier, finish the semester before Christmas, and then get out before May,” Schemmel said. “but I’ll make it work no matter what.”

While most students would prefer more and longer breaks, it’s not hard to become accustomed to.

“The breaks go by so fast that I feel like I’m already back in school after the first day off,” freshman Avery Erickson said.

The number of days that students and staff are released for holidays remains the same as last year’s calendar.

“I like having all the holidays off from school,” junior Madison McClafferty said.
The new LISD calendar was made in hopes of benefiting both students and teachers; the new year is bound to run as successful and smooth as last year.