Spring Breaks Out in Many Ways & Places
This week marked the always much-anticipated and looong-awaited spring break on the school calendar. Many families take the annual opportunity for a getaway and regroup for the homestretch of the academic year. Others just take a collective deep breath of the finally freshening air outdoors, fill out their brackets for the family NCAA basketball pool and revel in a week of relaxed routines. But a few what might be termed working vacations or business trips are going on under district auspices this week.
- The acclaimed marine biology/aquarium science program at Central Campus is off on its annual Florida junket for some up-close, hands-on study of coral reefs and ocean ecology. Scuba- certified students will enjoy diving opportunities. Teachers Kirk Embree and Gerald Van Dyck are leading the way on this adventure.
- Hoover High School’s band, led by director Randy Hoepker, made music in Italy.
- Also touring there was the Roosevelt High School Art Club under the guidance of art teachers Sam Chiodo and Becky Johnson.
- High school track teams were in action this week at invitational indoor meets as the spring sports take the athletic baton from basketball, bowling and wrestling. On your marks…
Between Hoover’s maestros and Roosevelt’s artistes, DMPS had the makings of a renaissance flash mob on the streets of Rome if they’d been able to get their itineraries synchronized on their field trips extraordinaire. Hopefully the Central marine biologists and aquarists remembered their sunscreen.
While the scientists were getting their feet wet in the Sunshine State and the fine artists were rocking a cradle of western civilization the starter’s gun fired back home where those of us stuck staycationing marked the first official day of spring on Thursday with highs in the upper 50’s.
It looks like we made it.
