All Irma, No power
Hurricane Irma leaves many without power for more than a week
Esan Millet ([email protected])
Hurricane Irma left millions in Florida without power including many in Broward County. Due to this School was cancelled the week after the natural disaster occurred. Some students are still currently out of power and with a lot of homework being assigned online a lot of students have yet to catch up on work. Alan George, plantation high school junior, says “I was out of power for 5 days and I was totally freaking out. Like I am really thankful that my teachers pushed back the due dates for a lot of my assignments. I think I and other students as well will be able to get back on pace.” Teachers like Ms. Hoffman who teaches AP US History have built in days for catching up on work just in case an event like Irma occurred. There are some students who didn’t really experience power outage problems. Plantation High high junior, Sahil Sheth explains “I was only out of power for 20 minutes so i didn’t really have problems. I ended up getting ahead with physics homework so now I i can relax for a little while the rest of the students catch up.”
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With classes now behind by more than a week there is the question, how will time be made up? Ms.Stubbs points out the print under the regular school calendar which states in case of a hurricane early release days would be removed from the schedule. “Whenever during a hurricane and more than 5 days of school are missed we start taking off early release day. Instead of getting out 2 hours earlier they would just stay in school like it is a regular day.” Plantation High School in addition to regular early release days has 6 professional study days this year. Professional study days are like early releases time wise for students since they get out. However these early release days will not be removed and replaced with regular school days due to PSD days being mainly for the teachers.
Electricians around the County are working to repair power lines damaged during the storm.
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