Earlier this month, enough students at Greene County High School enrolled in the student construction class to be able to offer it during the second and third trimesters this school year.

Before the school year began, the School Board of Directors set a minimum of six students to offer the class and there were only two who had signed up.  Due to not meeting the enrollment standard, the class was not offered for the first trimester.

Instructor Chuck Wenthold did some recruiting and was able to surpass the minimum student enrollment with seven students and at the October School Board meeting, it was decided that the class will be offered later on this school year.

It is a three-period class that takes up a student’s entire afternoon.

Superintendent Tim Christensen says because the class will be starting in the middle of the school year, the entire course will not be offered and the students will not get the opportunity to build an entire house which is normally the case with this type of class.  He notes that the students will be able to help with building of a new greenhouse for FFA and help renovate a house for Habitat for Humanity as other possible projects.

The class consists of three main areas which includes introduction to residential construction, site layout and concrete theory.

However, the current house the district has is on Wilcoxway and still isn’t completed to be put on the market, which Christensen believes will be a key point for the School Board to focus on going forward with the class.

“If we can get that house sold, financially we’re not going to be able to move with building another house until we get that sold.  So that’s going to be part of the discussion.  But we’re just going to have to have that discussion and see how the course goes this year and go from there.”

The second trimester begins on November 13th.