By: Taylor Rigney
On Friday, January 8, Lamar County Schools were closed as a precaution to anticipated wintry weather resulting in icy roads. A little over a month later, schools were cancelled again due to the snow storm that occurred on February 12. These two back-to-back school cancellations brought about the issue for district administration of determining when to make these days up.
The Monday after Easter is usually written in on the schedule as “Bad Weather Day” to allow in advance for any school cancellations that may need to be made up, but since there wasn’t room for a second make-up day to be built into the schedule, this day will have to be made up at the end of the school year in May.
The school board is still in the process of determining if and how this end-of-the-year make-up day will affect the last day for seniors, which is scheduled to fall on May 20.
“As a senior, I seriously hope we’re able to get by without making up that last day. Since I was on a drama trip both days and had to wake up early, I didn’t even get to enjoy being out of school or playing in the snow. So, yeah, I’d be upset if I had to make up that day,” Luke Bush said, of the possibility of spending one extra day in high school.
