NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — Pretty Prairie USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson is looking forward to a pivotal day next week for the ongoing projects related to the recently passed bond issue in the district.
"Tuesday is kind of a big day," Anderson said. "Sturgeon Glass is coming down and we're going to start making a plan for which classrooms we're going to start with at the high school. We're going to have to relocate the kids and the teachers a little bit while they are working in a classroom, and so, we're going to have to kind of play musical chairs, or musical classrooms, I guess, and move some things around. We're going to start planning for that project."
Also on Tuesday is another important phase of a different portion of the project.
"Right after that meeting, we have all the subcontractors coming out with DCS, and they'll start walking through our gym, where we're going to do the big renovation project," Anderson said. "That's a big day. It's starting to get real, now that subcontractors are coming on site and they'll start the bidding process. We're one step closer."
The kids will have an adjustment period as classrooms get moved around.
"We knew the high school kids would be the most flexible and easygoing," Anderson said. "We knew we were going to start there. Then we'll move to the middle school and then we'll move to the grade school. Hopefully, we'll be to the grade school in May. All of the testing will be done. We don't want to disrupt the grade school, as much as we can."
The district also plans to rebalance classrooms with class sizes at the grade school level when they have to move around anyway.
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