Mark White has been waiting for this moment for years. Back when he was an earth science teacher, he wanted to take his students out to see an eclipse that was passing over the North Country. But school officials foiled his plans.
“After that point I said, ‘If this ever happens again, I’m going to make sure that the kids—my kids or whoever I’m with at the time—will get the full experience of it.’ And that’s kind of what brought us here today,” White said.
White’s now the superintendent of Hermon-Dekalb Central School, and there’s not much that could stop him from taking students outside to witness the total solar eclipse.
