Students rewarded with open campus

by Kayla Werner

Freshman through juniors were allowed to go off campus for lunch as a reward for raising their scores on the ITED and ITBS tests this year. 

The open-campus lunch was an incentive for students while taking the Iowa Assessment tests. If a student showed growth in math, reading and science, then the student earned the privilege of open campus lunches. 

These three tests were used because they are the tests that the school reports out to the state.

Principal Brian Moretz said, “The juniors handled this privilege quite well this week, and I can foresee this continuing in the future for our students.”

They each get a maximum of three days to use their free pass to go off campus from 12:15 to 1:05 p.m. 

A total of 36 juniors earned at least one open-campus lunch. Only  one student lost their remaining opportunities  for open campus lunch due to being late for class .

Juniors had to use their open lunches during the week of April 17 to April 20. Sophomores have theirs the week of April 23 to April 27 and freshman have their week from April 30 to May 4. Students do not have to use their open lunch times if they don’t want to, but they cannot be carried over to following weeks.

Cassie Corbin, a junior, said, “The open lunches are a great way to prepare us for college.”