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Solar Eclipse Provides Once-in-a-Lifetime Learning Opportunity

Keller ISD is excited to provide students and employees the opportunity to view the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. 

Our District and much of Northeast Texas is in the path of totality, presenting our students with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view this rare phenomenon as the moon perfectly blocks the face of the sun. 

Keller ISD has been preparing for the eclipse for more than a year, working to allow students the opportunity to experience the total eclipse with their own safety devices. The Keller ISD Education Foundation has generously donated $20,000 to purchase ISO-certified eclipse-viewing glasses, and a grant through Buc-ee’s and the Houston Museum of Science has provided additional eclipse viewers. 

For parents who would prefer their student not view the April 8 eclipse, all campuses have provided opt-out forms, and those opting-out will be provided indoor alternatives. Any parent who did not receive an opt-out form can contact their student’s campus to receive a copy. 

Campuses will not be available for public viewing; however, parents who wish to join their student for this event can contact their respective school for information about how to do so. Parents always have the right to check their students out of school. Such an absence would not count against a students’ truancy calculation but may count against the 90% rule. 

Students at many campuses will spend the days leading up to April 8 learning about the eclipse. This particular eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean and cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. DFW is the largest metropolitan area in the path of the eclipse, and this is the last such occurrence that will be visible from the contiguous United States until 2044. 

Please contact your student’s campus for any additional information about how their school is approaching the eclipse. 

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