While the DRBA's pockets are deep, the potential for lawsuits from passengers taken ill should be enough to put this issue at the top of the authority's agenda. It has a reputation as an innovator. That's why it was no surprise when the district board of education voted the other day to start planning for a year-round school operation. Highlands Elementary School in west Wilmington will start planning soon for year-round instruction in 2002. Year-round school makes sense educationally.
Students generally lose knowledge over the three-month summer break.
And such schools make sense economically. These big buildings cost millions of dollars to construct and yet function at full capacity for only nine months of the year. That makes no sense. The Red Clay district will involve parents and teachers with the school board in its planning. That's the right approach.