The Fern Ridge School Board met Monday and approved calendar changes for making up this winter’s weather-related school cancellations and delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“After discussions with staff and administrators, a proposal was made to the school board last night, and it was approved,” Superintendent Gary Carpenter wrote in announcing the decision Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grades ninth through 11th need 990 hours of instruction, and 12th-graders need 966 hours of instruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With three snow days and three two-hour delays, high school students are down about a total of 24 hours of instruction, with 9th- through 11th-graders missing six hours of instruction and 12th-graders missing about 16 hours of instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“To assist staff, students and families that may have had plans Memorial Day weekend, the May 26th day will be an early release day, and May 24th (Wednesday) will be a full-school day (NO EARLY RELEASE),” Carpenter wrote to district staff, students and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally, May 26 was going to be a teacher workday and there would have been no school. Students will still get May 29 off for Memorial Day, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For ninth- through 11th-graders only, May 26 will be added to the schedule. Seniors will need more days added for two main reasons: They are missing more hours, and they already get out earlier than the other grades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey will also attend the Wednesday and Thursday before graduation day. This will get us in compliance for all grades, K-12, in regards to required hours,\u201d Carpenter said about the seniors’ schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
School will be extended to June 8 for the seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were also some early concerns that graduation may be delayed. Those fears have been unfounded, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGraduation will not be<\/strong> pushed back,\u201d Carpenter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plans for that Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be announced next week, once the plan has been finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is likely to include a combination of final exams and graduation practice,\u201d EHS Principal Rick Gardner said when asked what the added days would look like for the seniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 26 is now a school day, and there will be no early release the Wednesday before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":8280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}