H-BC approves 2021-22 calendar

The Hills-Beaver Creek School Board approved the 2021-22 calendar at their March 9 meeting with half of the district’s teachers supporting the choice.
In her staff development committee report, director Tami Rauk said teachers were presented three different calendars and were asked to vote on their preference.
“Fifty percent of the vote supported the one chosen,” she said.
Classes for the upcoming 2021-22 school year would start Sept. 7, a day after Labor Day, for students in grades 6-12 with conferences taking place for kindergarten through fifth-grade students on Sept. 7. The first day of class will be Sept. 8 for K-5 students.
Classes will end Friday, May 27, 2022, with commencement exercises at 7 p.m. that evening.
No snow days were designated in next year’s school calendar.
“With our e-learning days, there are no snow days,” Superintendent Todd Holthaus said.
Each school year, districts can conduct up to five e-learning days due to inclement weather.
 
In other business, the H-BC board:
•approved spring coaching assignments: golf, Dan Ellingson with Caleb Ellingson as volunteer assistant golf coach; track, Rex Metzger as head coach with Dalton Bass as assistant coach and Darin DeBoer as junior high coach.
•accepted Halden VanWyhe’s resignation as volleyball assistant coach.
 
Prom scheduled for May 15 in Beaver Creek
Prom for Hills-Beaver Creek High School junior and senior students will be Saturday, May 15, but not in the usual location.
Junior parents, who fundraise and organize prom activities, moved the annual event to the SpringBrooke Events center in Beaver Creek from the Goehle gymnasium in Hills.
“(The) school was only going to host a Grand March due to (pandemic) regulations they were going to have to follow,” said junior parent Kari Kueter.
“They couldn’t guarantee parents could be there for the Grand March. It’s not that we didn’t want it at school; we just wanted to be able to attend in person, so we asked parents and decided we would do it all.”
Parents are planning a meal, Grand March, dance and after-prom activities. Activities are still in the planning stages, Kueter said, with activities beginning at 4:30 p.m. and ending at 1:30 a.m. Exact activities and times will be announced in April.
Due to the pandemic, last year’s prom was canceled.