Tyler (KYTX) - Some students are urgently cracking the books and filling Tyler ISD classrooms this summer.
They're trading in their days in the sun for learning in school.
Hundreds of TISD students are picking up their pens and answering questions in summer school.
The idea is to help students catch up, move ahead and tackle any problems with the TAKS test.
In a quiet classroom at Moore Middle School, Annette Scudder sits down with her students working on problems for the TAKS test.
"It's nice to have a small group, I can help them with a whole lot more," says Scudder.
Whether its Problem solving in reading, or math, these 8th graders are in the middle of a 3 week course to prepare to take the state mandated test one last time.
"State has guidelines that says in 5th and 8th grades you have to pass this TAKS test in order to move on to the next grade level," says Debbie Kelly, the Executive Director of Secondary Education with Tyler ISD.
Kelly says the classes are offered at every middle school.
"They really zero in more with individual students on what they need to get ready to pass the test," says Kelly.
But some of the hundreds of students enrolled in summer classes aren't focusing on the TAKs test, they're trying to catch up, or move ahead.
"If they failed a course in the school year and want to recapture the credit," says Kelly.
No matter what the subject, teachers hope their help will move these students in the right direction.
"We would like to see all our students succeed and in order to do that, sometimes they need a little bit of individual help," says Scudder.
There are about 250 students working on TAKS remediation.
They will take the test a final time next week in order to move on to the next grade level.
And there is another summer school session next month for students in the district who need help, or wish to get that extra bump ahead in classes.
Those classes will be held July 12th- 30th.
For more information call TISD at 903-262-2625.
