While Gainesville and Hall County students are being kept an hour longer to experience the eclipse at school, not all of the students will watch the event in the sky. Kevin Bales, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning for Hall County Schools, said elementary and younger middle school students will likely watch the eclipse on a screen inside schools because of safety concerns. Bales said central office administrators will meet with school principals to finalize plans for the educational experiences during the eclipse in the next couple of weeks, but the guideline from Superintendent Will Schofield “is that elementary, for the most part, should plan to utilize technology, and the lessons that will be distributed out with regard to that.”