Dr. William Clark

Superintendent’s Blog

March 2008

            Due to the severe weather during the 2007-08 school year, all five make-up days had to be used due to inclement weather.  In order to allow graduation to stay on time, a proposal will be taken to the school board on March 11^th to consider shortening the Easter break in order to accommodate for an additional snow day or flood day, if needed.  The proposal is to consider March 24^th as an additional day to be used, if needed, for a make-up day if school would be closed between now and March 20^th.  If any additional days would be needed, they would have to be added on to the end of the district calendar.

            Parents who have made plans to take their son or daughter out of school for extended travel over the Easter holiday season would need to fill out an Educational Trip form in order to have the trip approved.  Future calendars for the district will be designed in such a manner to include the Easter Monday as a potential make-up day built into the calendar.

            The goal of the district calendar with respect to the adjustment is to keep graduation on schedule.  Many families plan activities around the graduation date, such as invitations for family members coming from out of town.  Also, the district needs to consider students who are graduating and starting summer classes as well.  Since this is a senior year activity and it is a capstone of the student’s educational career, keeping the graduation date intact is a critical issue that needs to be accomplished when considering adjustments to the district calendar due to school closings.