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Students' alarms will be buzzing on Presidents Day

BOE tweaks calendar due to 8 missed days

February 11, 2009|Bob Flynn

The Jessamine County School Board announced Monday that it will use Presidents Day, Feb. 16, as a make up day for one of the eight days classes were dismissed due to inclement weather this year.

Superintendent Lu Young said the board also had adjusted the remainder of the school calendar to make up for the other missed days.

"We will be having classes on Presidents Day, and also the board has put back in May 19, which we had thought was going to be a primary election day, but there are no elections slated for that day," Young said. "If we count those two days and then add the other six days in at the end of the year, we are looking at the last student day being Thursday, June 4 instead of Wednesday, May 27 as was originally planned."

Those plans could change because the Kentucky legislature has been discussing the possibility of giving school districts as many as five relief days, meaning they wouldn't have to be made up.

But, Young said even if the days were offered, it doesn't mean that the district would automatically take them.

"We don't know for sure whether we would take relief days, depending on instruction and that type of thing," Young said. "I strongly believe that we need more instructional days, not fewer. But, at the same time, if it falls at the end of the year and it kind of looks like we've lost the kids by that point anyway, that would be something that we would have to consider."

Anytime there are days that have to be made up in the spring, there is a lot of concern about it interfering with school's spring break scheduled for March 30 through April 3, but Young said that spring break is safe at this point.

"It is looking like it is unlikely that spring break will be affected right now," Young said. "We would still have Friday, May 5 and Memorial Day in the calendar that we could use as make-up days and keep us away from spring break, but, after that we are into spring break having to be used."

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