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Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times Aspen School District administrators have spent the last two months collecting community feedback on a proposed school calendar that eliminates Wednesday early-release days and maintains a split schedule in which elementary school students start earlier than middle and high school students. Middle and high school students would start at 8:45 a.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. according to the latest version of the proposed calendar ; elementary school students would start at 8 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. More than 650 survey and feedback form responses provided a mixed bag of opinion with no overarching theme, according to District Superintendent David Baugh.
Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times There’s no shortage of community input when it comes to the 2021-22 Aspen School District calendar: a recent community feedback survey posted on the district website has garnered hundreds of responses, according to district Superintendent David Baugh. That feedback has led to some changes to the proposed 2021-22 academic calendar, Baugh said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. The revisions primarily impact day-to-day scheduling for students, according to Baugh’s presentation. A new, split schedule moves the elementary school hours earlier in the day: students in kindergarten through fourth-grade would arrive at 8 a.m. and be released at 3 p.m., with teacher hours from 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.