It's all over now. At least the Pottsgrove School District hopes so.
POTTSTOWN PA – Blame this winter’s severe weather for a shuffle in the Pottsgrove School District’s 2009-2010 calendar.
The district Board of School Directors, which by law must provide 180 total instruction days to students, unanimously agreed Tuesday night (March 9, 2010) to push the end of the school year back two days, from June 16 to June 18, and to schedule Pottsgrove High School‘s graduation ceremonies for June 17, so it could use the additional days and the Monday following Easter (April 5, 2010) as make-ups for snow days declared since January.
In addition, the district will re-schedule to June 21 what would have been the last day of work for teachers, and use it as a staff in-service day.
Students’ parents and teachers alike will be notified of the changes this morning (Wednesday, March 10, 2010) by the district’s Global Connect messaging system and other means, district Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis said.
The calendar changes were difficult, Landis noted, because of already scheduled senior activities. The annual senior class trip to Florida, final exams, awards presentations, and commencement rehearsals all occur during the last two weeks of the school year.
And what happens, director April Kontostathis asked, if it snows again before the year ends and another snow day is needed?
Well, Landis replied, “if it snows again it’s probably too late to take another day from the calendar.” The likely options then would be to open school on the Monday observed as Memorial Day (“I don’t think attendance would be too good then,” Landis conceded), or to request a one-day wavier of the instructional days’ requirement from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
“But it’s not going to snow again,” a determined Landis said, smiling. “It’s just not going to snow again.”
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