By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Extreme heat is forcing the St. Joseph School District to take action and close early today, tomorrow, and on Thursday.
Superintendent Gabe Edgar says there are a lot of underlying factors for the early release.
"It's obviously heat related, we had a lot of challenges yesterday with our transportation and obviously our transportation is a big part of what we provide here from an education standpoint," Edgar tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "And so what we are doing is we are letting out early."
In dealing with the heat yesterday during the first day of school, Edgar says things went well in the school buildings.
"There were some hiccups being the first day and I think it would have gotten better throughout the week but the reason for the early out has nothing to do with not having air at Bode or Central, not to say that we wouldn't have had an early out just for those two, but transportation is playing the big part of that," Edgar explains.
High Schools will begin at 7:25am release at 12:05pm and middle schools will start at 7:35am and end at 12:15pm. Going from 8:10am to 12:45pm will be Carden Park, Coleman, Edison, Field, Hosea, Lindbergh, Parkway elementaries.
Going from 8:45am to 1:15pm Ellison, Hyde, Oak Grove, Pershing, and Pickett Elementary Schools.
The school schedule will return to normal on Friday.