Summer school enrollment doubled at local high schools
Flathead High School student Priscilla Wagoner receives instruction from business teacher Cameron Rozell during Kalispell Public Schools' high school summer school program at Glacier High School on Tuesday, July 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Students work at computers inside a social studies and business lab during Kalispell Public Schools' summer school program at Glacier High School in this July 13, 2021, file photo. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
From left, incoming fourth-graders Elijah Walrath, River Knudsvig, Finn Irwin and Lucious Hatch work on a writing exercise during summer school at Muldown Elementary School in Whitefish on Tuesday, July 13. The students were given an abstract subject and asked to use adjectives and transitions to increase their writing stamina. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
A student watches a video on his phone while working inside a lab during Kalispell Public Schools' high school summer school program at Glacier High School on Tuesday, July 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Stetson Morris, left, and Charley Duffey work on removing a letter written in chalk with a spray bottle during a summer school exercise at Muldown Elementary School in Whitefish on Tuesday, July 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead High School student Athena Wallace works inside a social studies and business classroom during the Kalispell Public Schools' summer school program at Glacier High School on Tuesday, July 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
From left, incoming fourth-graders Elijah Walrath, River Knudsvig, Finn Irwin and Lucious Hatch work on a writing exercise during summer school at Muldown Elementary School in Whitefish on Tuesday, July 13. The students were given an abstract subject and asked to use adjectives and transitions to increase their writing stamina. (Casey Kreider/daily Inter Lake)
Summer-school programs in the Kalispell, Whitefish and Columbia Falls school districts have seen enrollment double at the high school level this summer as students strive to compensate for challenges posed by the pandemic during the past school year.
Although many school districts in the Flathead Valley remained open with in-person learning when hundreds of schools around the nation went fully remote during the pandemic — quarantines and cancellations have taken a toll on students academically and emotionally...
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