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Calamity days take another hit
In today’s paper I wrote about calamity days, the five allotted cancellations Ohio schools get each year.
Many schools are on the brink of making up days but several have slipped past, in part due to September’s windstorms which caused widespread power outages that affected some buildings.
Well, as you can see, those calamity days took nother hit today.
So a lot of Clark and Champaign county students will be looking at exta days at the end of the year.
But if this kind of weather continues for a few more weeks, there may be another option.
After a district has used more than 10 calamity days, the state allows them to make up days by adding hours to the end of the school day instead of adding days to the end of the year.
So students could be coming in an hour early or leaving an hour late (or some combination of early arrival and early dismissal) to make up their time, if school officials chose that option.
Southeastern schools is the district most likely to reach that threshold at this time. Today marks their eighth cancellation of the year.
Those windy, high speed rural roads are a bit more treacherous some days than the more often traveled city streets, particularly for large school buses.
Parents what would you prefer to make up calamity days if school officials get the option? More hours in the school day or more days in the school year?
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