After more than a week of no school and winter wonderland, all students in the Tahoma school district felt the pressure and exhaustion of a possible late end to the school year.

Besides the terrifying idea of staying in school until late June, the lesser-evil proposal was adding ten minutes both before and after school, and getting rid of early release Fridays. With this proposal, the school board only needed to add one extra day to the end of the year, compared to the six or so days of the first idea.

Adding days to the end of the school year would mean sitting around in classes when it’s ninety degrees, homework when you were supposed to be taking that trip to the beach, canceling that concert and replacing it with tests… the list goes on. With adding time to the beginning and end of our school days, we can slowly accumulate minutes until we meet the national requirement for school hours.

The school board voted on the matter last Tuesday, and it has been agreed to begin school ten minutes earlier, end school ten minutes later, and switch all early-release Fridays to normal release (out at 2:20, due to the ten minute-lengthening at the end of the day).

While this will keep us out of school during summer, it will not be helpful for some scheduled activities. “I volunteer at 2:30 every day, and walk from school to get there,” a freshman, anonymous, says. “I won’t be able to make it in time when they change the schedule for school!”

The new schedule begins Monday the 18th, and will continue until the end of the school year.