Students have missed more than two full weeks of school due to snow this winter, but right now the academic year will be extended just two extra days in late May. Two more days will made up in March and April.
School has been cancelled 12 days for hazardous conditions, but eight days were already built into the school calendar. That was figured based on instructional hours for the entire year. There are some legislative measures currently before the Kentucky General Assembly that could retroactively affect this year’s calendar and how Crittenden County School District has calculated its number of days. It’s not very likely, however, that anything will change.
That means students will have to make up two days before the end of the year and two at the end. Students were scheduled to be out of school for teacher planning days on March 7 and April 11. Now, they will go to school on those days to make up a couple of the days missed for snow.
School officials have posted two more make-up days at the end of the calendar, which means the final day for students will be May 24 and the final day for teachers will be May 27.
Spring break April 4-8 will not be affected by the school system’s plan to make up snow days. However, it will be shortened a bit because the Monday following spring break was supposed to be one of those teacher planning days when students would have been out of school. Now, they will be required to attend.
If more days are missed for snow, the extra days would more than likely be tacked onto the end of the school calendar.
