Wake County takes 3 days of spring break to makeup snow days
Traditional-calender students in Wake County will lose three days of spring break in order to make up eight days lost to wintry weather in recent weeks, the school system announced Saturday.
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The decision by school system leaders to take a portion of spring break will mean about 100,000 students in the county will attend school March 23-25, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of spring break. Traditional-calendar students will not attend school on Good Friday and two Saturdays that were discussed during a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday.
“We recognize many parents make plans for spring break,” school board Chair Christine Kushner said in a statement. “But we also appreciate many more children will be right here at home and could take advantage of the only available stretch of quality instructional time left on this year’s calendar. We trust parents will make the best decisions for their families.”
Two days previously scheduled to be early-release days for traditional-calendar students – Friday, March 6 and Friday, April 17 – will now be full days.
“Our students have lost a huge amount of time in the past month, and there just aren’t any good options left for recovering that much instruction,” Superintendent Jim Merrill said in a statement. “It’s a tough situation for everyone – teachers, parents and students – and we are trying to make the best of it.”
The school system on Saturday also announced its final makeup day plans for the 50,000 students who attend schools on non-traditional calendars. Those schools can recover the time using a combination of Saturday classes already scheduled as make up days and by replacing teacher workdays with regular classroom lessons, school system officials said.
Three of the eight missed days were recovered using so-called "banked hours" that students accumulate by attending class beyond North Carolina's required minimum. No makeup day is required for the Feb. 24 school day because buses had already started their runs before classes were canceled.
Full makeup day schedules for all calendars:
Wednesday, March 25 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Saturday, May 30 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Friday, April 17 – This early release day is extended to a full day
Saturday, May 30 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Saturday, May 30 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Saturday, May 30 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Tuesday, June 2 – Schools will operate on a normal weekday schedule
Friday, May 29 – Workday becomes normal school day
Friday, May 22 – Workday becomes normal school day
Friday, May 29 – Workday becomes normal school day
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