It will be an unusual last week of the school year due to graduation happening on Thursday, June 11 which is the third to last day of the year. There will be no classes that day for 9th, 10th and 11th graders with both Dominion graduating in the morning and Robey later that day, both in the main gym.
Dr. Brewer said, “We have somewhere around 20 graduations as a school division, and they have to be spread out over about a one week period of time. We’re a school that has to do [graduation] at home. We’re not large enough to go to Eagle Bank Arena. There are many schools that are much larger and have smaller gyms than we do.”
After June 11, there will only be two days remaining in the school year, including Monday, June 15. But with school assessments completed by that point, there still isn’t a defined reason to persuade students to come to school on those days.
According to Brewer, it was initially planned for SOL retakes to take place on the last two days of school, ensuring that students would have to come, but that is no longer possible because it falls outside of the designated retake window.
Dr. Brewer said, “I’m not sure what we’re going to do with the last two days of school. I had a plan for that until I met with our school test coordinator, and he said, ‘John, you can’t do what you want to do. You can’t do it.’”
There is now a possibility that culminating assessments will be on the last two days of school. “I’m a little worried about that because if you have Thursday the 11 off, I don’t know how many people are going to show up for a Friday-Monday school pair of school days. I figured people who had to pass one of the SOL tests probably would. But I don’t know if I’m going to get everybody else to show up,” Dr. Brewer admitted.
Dr. Brewer does have expectations for students to come on the last two days of school, but it is still undetermined as to the purpose for showing up. “My expectations were probably nobody would [come to school on the 12 and 15], but we would get for sure those who were really serious about taking the retake. But now, just a couple hours ago, I found out I can’t do that.”
Dr. Brewer said, “I’ll have to come up with a good reason [for why you should come to school]. Otherwise, I’m not sure you should. And the answer might be that you have a culminating assessment on those days, I just haven’t had time to make that decision yet.”
