The Mid-Prairie School District will resume a weekly 90-minute early dismissal on Wednesdays starting tomorrow.

Superintendent Mark Schneider says the district switched from a two-hour early out every other week to dismissing classes at 1:45 p.m. for the high school and middle school and 1:55 p.m. for East and West elementary schools  every week on a trial run starting last October. He says the school board approved at their January 11th meeting to continue the policy after getting positive reviews from parents, “During the first semester, the early outs were used by teachers to provide lessons and learning activities to students that were stuck at home due to quarantine or to illness, so they (teachers) were better able to facilitate the learning with those children that were at home and that has been very successful. We got a lot of great compliments from parents that they appreciate all of the work the teachers have done to reach out to those students who may be at home for a 10-day quarantine period or what have you.”

Schneider says the weekly 90-minute early outs will continue through the end of the school year.