{"id":171466,"date":"2023-10-17T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=171466"},"modified":"2023-10-17T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:40:57","slug":"mollenkopf-requests-eclipse-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/17\/mollenkopf-requests-eclipse-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollenkopf requests eclipse switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; A switch in days off may be in order due to next year\u2019s rare solar eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s Crestview school board meeting, Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf said she\u2019s discussed the April 8, 2024 eclipse date with other county superintendents and would like to have the board consider swapping days off for students and staff \u2013 President\u2019s Day (February 19) for eclipse day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to be respectful of parents\u2019 schedules with their kids, we want to be respectful of our athletic schedule because I can see any events that might have been scheduled for day would need to be switched, and we want to be respectful of our staff so they can plan accordingly,\u201d Mollenkopf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also said a couple of other districts are considering the same switch and she said the matter should be discussed at a future board meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County is in the path of the eclipse and is expected to be inundated with visitors before and during the eclipse, which could lead to food and gas shortages, along with traffic tie ups, which is the main concern since busses are normally sent out around the time the eclipse will begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY &#8212; A switch in days off may be in order due to next year\u2019s rare solar eclipse. During Monday night\u2019s Crestview school board meeting, Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf said she\u2019s discussed the April 8, 2024 eclipse date with other county superintendents and would like to have the board consider swapping days off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 05:31:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171468,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171466\/revisions\/171468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}