The DeKalb County School System is about to run out of “snow days”.
Director of Schools Mark Willoughby says only one “snow day” remains to be used and any further days missed would have to be made up somewhere.
Eleven days are built into the school calendar each year for “snow days” or inclement weather and two days are included for so called “stockpile” or professional development days. On the stock pile days, students do not attend. One of the stockpile days has already been used and the other is scheduled for Friday, March 5th. Willoughby says the school board could elect to have school on the remaining stockpile day, if necessary.
If more than two days are missed, the board would have to decide how to make them up.
State law requires students to be in school a certain number of days each year.
The remaining school calendar calls for students to be off again for President’s Day, Monday, February 15th and spring break March 29th to April 2nd
Students will not attend on Friday, May 21. That will be an administrative day and all teachers must attend.. The last day of school will be Saturday, May 22nd. That will be an abbreviated school day and report cards will be sent home.
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