KEC April 8th: Half Day

Following on the footsteps of other schools across Quebec, the Kahnawake Education center has decided to turn April 8^th, the day of the once in a lifetime solar eclipse, into a half school day. The decision by the KEC is for safety considerations. Darlene Roberts (assistant to the Director) is the Communications Supervisor at the KEC:

“We actually had conferred and reviewed all of the data that we were getting for the possible damage that might be caused from a solar eclipse during that time and we decided to close for a half a day on April 8th and that’s really for safety reasons, because when the eclipse will be hitting that’s when we are going to be releasing children from school, that lessens our control as to how they would able to see the solar eclipse and possible damage that might happen.”

The KEC is encouraging all Kahnawakeronon to watch the eclipse at the Montreal Science Center where special glasses will be provided to all those attending. The next full solar eclipse in our area will be in 180 years from now.