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The affects of Hurricane Harvey on Humble Summer Creek and Humble Kingwood High Schools have been documented here within the past week. The two communities of the two High Schools were hit pretty hard, especially Kingwood. The Kingwood areas are among some of the hardest hit areas in the southeast Texas area and now when the students are able to get back to school, they will not have their school.
Kingwood High School has been deemed unsafe to conduct school. Per one district employee, recommendations from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) are more or less to tear it down and rebuild it. The current status of the building is under uncertainty and for foreseeable future will remain closed.
Flooded With Disaster, Kingwood Runs Toward Recovery
Summer Creek High School Dealing With Direct Impact Of Hurricane Harvey
Humble ISD schools will begin their school season on September 7, 2017 except for Kingwood and Summer Creek. Those two high schools will start on the 11th. Kingwood students will be taking classes at Summer Creek High School for at least the rest of the semester. There are two proposed plans to facilitate this.
Option A
This option has a split day per school. Summer Creek would have school from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and Kingwood would go from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Option B
This option has the schools alternating days. Summer Creek would have classes Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays from 7:15 a.m. - 2:55 p.m. Kingwood would have class Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
There will be a vote on which options the school administrations decides to take, but both plans could have unusual affects on athletics. If Kingwood athletes have class on Saturdays, how would the district or UIL govern those situations? Most cross country meets are on Saturdays. Would the athletes be penalized or deterred from competitions?
How are Kingwood and Summer Creek coaches going to share facilities? Being district rivals, situations could get hairy when coaches and teams try to win district titles.
Either way, this is just another example of Hurricane Harvey affecting southeast Texas. Applause should go to Humble ISD for being proactive and the administration of each school for adapting to changes throughout this unforeseen situation.