By LeAnn R. Ralph
ELK MOUND — It’s one thing if there are only one or two snow days to make up, but what do you do when there are six — and now seven?
The Elk Mound Board of Education approved a plan at the February 18 for making up the first six snow days.
The plan approved by the school board cancels the planned early release on March 7 and replaces it with a full day of instruction, and the planned vacation day on April 22 has been cancelled and will now be a regular day of school, according to Eric Wright, district administrator.
In addition, the snow days will be made up by adding 15 minutes to each school day at the elementary school, middle school and high school beginning on March 4 and extending through the end of the school year, he said.
According to the plan, the Mound View Elementary day will end at 3:22 p.m.; the middle school day will end at 3:30 p.m.; and the high school day will end at 3:32 p.m.
Students who ride the bus will be dropped off 15 minutes later than their regular time beginning March 4.
The make-up plan allows Elk Mound to end the school year on the previously planned day of June 4, Wright said.
If the school district cancels more school days because of the weather, the Elk Mound district will most likely have to add on days at the end of the school year, he said.
The meeting at which the Board of Education approved the plan was February 18, and two days later, on February 20, another winter storm that dumped another eight inches of snow added a seventh inclement weather day to the list at Elk Mound.
