Trustees get a student's-eye view

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown

Cindy Erickson, Havre Public Schools trustee, joins in with a sixth-grade social studies class Thursday afternoon at Havre Middle School.

The Havre Public Schools' Board of Trustees like to see what's happening in the schools, and this year they're getting a better view than usual, from the students' desks.

In place of an annual bus tour, called the Yellow Bus Tour, the trustees have begun a new program, Big for a Day, in which each board members follows a student's schedule at a particular school.

"We've been doing the Yellow Bus Tour for quite some...