Starting next year, the Haines School will return to its traditional 8:25 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. schedule.

The staff decision, approved last week by the school board, ends a one-year experiment that started students earlier in the morning and kept them later in the afternoon four days per week to create an early dismissal Thursday afternoon for teachers to work on professional development.

Principal Rene Martin reported that starting classes 10 minutes earlier created…