Jimmy King said he hated to be the bearer of bad news before he informed school board members Tuesday that the Badger Stadium turf project wouldn’t be finished prior to kickoff of the 2022 football season.
Vehicles will line the once-empty streets as parents drop off or pick up their children, and newly licensed teenagers will be driving to the high school.
This is also the way students will access their online lessons from their classroom teachers during Alternative Methods of Instruction (AMI) Days such as weather or health-related campus closures.
Bryan Mader, assistant professor and health specialist for the Division of Agriculture, said transmission of COVID-19 is again on the rise in Arkansas and elsewhere.
As the band directors meet the full band for the first time this week during summer band practices, all of them are excited about what the year will bring and establishing some of the core values students and the community can expect from the APSD band program, both in the world of music and in life values.
The event will be held Friday, July 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Goza Middle School.
Principals fielded questions from school board members on topics ranging from the difference between harassment and bullying, dress code violations, students’ freedom of political expression, cell phone usage and the implementation of a drug dog.
