Presidents Day won’t be a holiday for everyone. Some students will have school.
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- Wake, Orange convert Feb. 16 teacher workday into snow makeup day.
- Districts used most remote days and dipped into banked time, prompting makeups.
- Johnston shifts March 9 teacher workday to makeup Feb. 5; two academies exempt.
It’s time for some Triangle students to pay the price for snow days earlier this month.
Monday will now be a day of classes in Wake County and Orange County instead of a holiday set aside to mark Presidents Day. Johnston County students will have a snow makeup day coming in March.
Consecutive weekends of wintry weather in late January led to multiple days of school closures and delayed openings for area school districts.
School districts have used up most — if not all — of the five remote learning days allowed under state law where schools can have students learn from home during weather emergencies. Remote learning days don’t have to be made up.
School districts have also been eating into their “banked days,” the extra time built into their schedule to stay above the state minimum of 1,025 hours of instruction each school year. Banked time doesn’t have to be made up.
When remote days and banked days aren’t used during school closures, schools have to schedule makeup days to replace the lost instructional time.
Announced school makeup days
Here’s the makeup days announced by Triangle school districts.
- The Wake County school system is turning the teacher workday scheduled on Feb. 16 into a regular school day to replace the Feb. 2 snow day. Wake STEM students will make up the day on Feb. 17. Track 3 students at year-round schools were on break on Feb. 2 so they don’t need a makeup day.
- The Orange County school system is converting the teacher workday on Feb. 16 to a makeup day to replace the Feb. 3 snow day.
- The Johnston County school system will turn the teacher workday on March 9 into a makeup day to replace the Feb. 5 snow day. The makeup day doesn’t apply to the Johnston County Career and Technical Leadership Academy or the Johnston County Early College Academy.
Neither Durham Public Schools or Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools have had to schedule makeup days yet.
The Wake County school system could have avoided having a makeup day on Presidents Day by using one of its remaining remote learning days. But district officials said they wanted to preserve in-person instructional time after so many closures and delayed openings.
