Students in RC Schools have make-up day on Good Friday
Students in the Rogers City Area Schools won?t be able to sleep in on Good Friday morning like they thought they would as the board of education unanimously approved a recommendation by superintendent Ed Schultz to schedule a make-up day for Friday morning. School will be dismissed at 11:15 a.m. School officials say they had little choice. The state mandates districts attend 180 days of school during the school year, and are granted a grace of two days for snow, ice or ?act of God days.?
The Rogers City Area Schools reached its third canceled day last Friday, on day number two of the biggest late-season snowstorm to be recorded in Presque Isle County. Schultz was left with the question of how to make up the day, and a two-tier problem of having to lose $26,000 for the operation of the district for one day and a possible loss of state aid.
One option was to schedule a make-up day June 9, the Monday following the last week of the school year. To receive credit from the state as an official make-up day, the district needs to have 75 percent of its enrolled population in attendance. Schultz believes there?s a better chance of receiving that percentage tomorrow morning, than on June 9.
Members of the Rogers City Educators Association were contacted about the possible change in the schoo
While the district will be letting the students lose after only a half a day, the state will count it as a whole day, and the district will be back on pace to complete a 178-day calendar ? that is, unless there?s a May ice storm or a June blizzard.
If there are any more bad weather days, Schultz said they?ll go back to the June 9 option.