Katrice Perkins/Daily Mining Gazette L'Anse Area School Board members Edwin Gransell, Jason Ayres, Christine Collins and Principal Melissa Scroggs.

The L’Anse Area Schools Board discussed its stance on a proposed calendar for the 2018-19 school year.

As previously reported, Baraga Area Schools is looking to add an extra week of break to help with student and staff burnout, resulting in the addition of a week to the end of the school year.

Superintendent Susan Tollefson said she has met with the union to discuss a similar calendar, but she doesn’t think the board has support for it.

She did say she is working on a calendar that would push their end date back a couple of days, but not a full week.

“I just feel a calendar is one of those things where I do take a lot of input from the teaching staff, because I don’t have to sit in a classroom with 5-year-olds in June or middle schoolers,” said Tollefson.

She said the board wants to be similar to Baraga and the Copper County Intermediate School District, and is discussing scheduling early development day on the same days.

“Our calendar is not settled, and we’re taking into consideration trying to be close to the ISD’s and also closer to Baraga’s,” said Tollefson. “It doesn’t look like it’ll be identical though.”

Factors in balancing calendars are concerns about daycare, shortening summer break and learning loss among students over the break.