Calamity Days Unlikely To Lengthen Mentor School Year
Even Fairfax Elementary -- which has used four calamity days -- still has access to three "blizzard bag" days
Mentor Schools have had to miss school days this year for lake effect snow and Hurricane Sandy hangovers, but it's unlikely that they will have to lengthen their school year to make up for an excess of calamity days as they did in 2011. Schools are alotted five calamity days per year. This means -- under normal circumstances -- if a building misses more than five days, they would have to make up the balance some time before the end of the school year. A few schools in Mentor are close to that precipice. Fairfax Elementary has missed a total of four days; Shore and Orchard Hollow have missed three; the rest have missed two. However, all the Mentor Public Schools have an additional 3-day buffer before they need to make up calamity days. This…
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Kathy Adult
6:22 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
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