The water-main break Tuesday near Lafayette High School disrupted the schedule there, but school officials are managing to reschedule with only some minor glitches.

According to Assistant Principal Chris Early they had to reschedule final exams today for the senior class both before and after the rehearsal for graduation. The results of the final exams will affect the order that the top ten seniors receive their diplomas.

“What we told our top ten students is that we’re going to go with what their grades currently are, but they’re going to be aware that we might have to make a last-minute flip-flop, or two, on graduation day,” Early said.

“Some of these GPA’s go down to, I can’t even tell you how many decimals out they go where kids are tied. And that only affects the top ten kids,” he said. “If that’s the case, the kids understand. And honestly, sometimes we run into that anyway.

“Every year something comes up, maybe a senior is sick on the day they have to take finals and they have to take a make-up final, and that can change things at the last minute. It was inconvenient, but it’s not out of the question for us sometimes to be scrambling to do some last-minute finals and get some last-minute adjustments done to our class rank. I wouldn’t be shocked if the ranks didn’t change at all.”

Some of those seniors are not required to take finals anyway, due to the St. Joseph School District’s new attendance policy.

Early said some seniors may have been a little upset having to come to school on Wednesday, which was supposed to be a day off, but he points out they got their day off Tuesday.

Tuesday was also Incoming Freshmen Day, in which 8th graders at Robidoux Middle School were scheduled to take a tour of the school. That event has been rescheduled Thursday.

Commencement is Sunday at Civic Arena. The Central High School graduation starts Sunday at 1pm. Commencement for Lafayette seniors begins at 4pm. Benton High School seniors get their diplomas beginning at 6:30pm.