Henryville school students have places to learn

HENRYVILLE, IND. (WDRB) -- WDRB News has learned where students from the heavily-damaged Henryville School will likely attend classes.

These are the tentative plans announced Thursday night: Elementary students will go to the former Graceland Christian School on Kamer Miller Road in New Albany, Indiana.

Junior and senior high school students will attend classes in the Mid-America Science Park in Scottsburg, Indiana.

None of the students will return to school next week, but officials say they hope to get the elementary students back in class by the week of March 19^th.

Older students could resume their studies on Monday April 2^nd at the earliest.

The West Clark School Board announced the changes in a meeting Thursday night. School leaders will meet again Friday evening at 5:30 in Henryville at Safe Harbor Church on Murphy Road.

Even in the pouring rain earlier Thursday, workers continued to sift through the rubble of the school. Officials have been able to recover most school records. Other school systems have donated textbooks.

Asst. Superintendent John Reed says, "It's amazing how many school districts, how many book companies have come forward and assured us that they will give us whatever they need."

Drew Bottorff, "Now, as a senior, with nine weeks of school, we don't have a place to graduate either, we don't have a place to do a lot of the normal senior things you think about."

Even with a place for students to attend school, the board still have to figure out details such as food, utilities, and transportation. The school system even has to borrow buses, since so many were destroyed in the storm.