{"id":31930,"date":"2016-01-18T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/auto-shop-set-to-reopen-after-death\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:01:44","slug":"auto-shop-set-to-reopen-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/auto-shop-set-to-reopen-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto shop set to reopen after death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014<\/strong> Students are just now returning to Ketchikan High School\u2019s auto shop after the death of Kayhi shop teacher Jeff Shelton.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton was killed in a vehicle collision in British Columbia during the school\u2019s winter break.<\/p>\n<p>Since school started in the first week of January, substitute teacher Theresa Wong has instructed Shelton\u2019s students in the Kayhi library. Principal Bob Marshall said classes would resume in the auto shop on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The shop was closed so that Marshall and other administrators could plan out how to proceed with the rest of the school year, as some activities in the shop require more than general teaching certifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t expect them to pull engines,\u201d Marshall said of students, noting that Wong is familiar with the shop and has worked as a substitute there before. \u201cIt sounds like they\u2019re just finishing up a few projects here and there, so they should be able to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teacher also kept many personal items in his classroom desk, and the school was \u201cmaking every effort to make sure that Mr. Shelton\u2019s personal things were given back to the Shelton family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall and Assistant Principal Mike Rath this week prepared the room for students, who haven\u2019t been in the shop since school went into break in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>For now Kayhi is relying on short-term substitutes, but Marshall said the school might hire a long-term substitute to finish the school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 Students are just now returning to Ketchikan High School\u2019s auto <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/shop\/\">shop<\/a> after the death of Kayhi shop teacher Jeff Shelton. Shelton was killed in a vehicle collision in British Columbia during the school\u2019s winter break. Since school started in the first week of January, substitute teacher Theresa Wong has instructed Shelton\u2019s students in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":31931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31930"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}