New Junior High Program To Help Kids Make The Grade

The Kimball Junior High will be introducing a new program in order to aid students with troubled grades in the second half of the school year.

The program named Extended Learning Time will be a mandatory after school study hall for kids who fall on the D or F list. The study hall will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday with kids falling on the D or F lists to attend ELT for at least one week.

“We’re targeting the seventh and eighth grade. All students who have a D or an F would be affected by this. They would be asked to come to study hall the next week after f...