It was just over a month ago when the Ferndale School District explained their plan for making up 6 snow days accrued in December. Since then, another 5 snow days have been taken and available options are becoming fewer and, for some, more disagreeable.
Today, the School District laid out on their website what has been done and identified options of what may be done in order to meet Washington State requirements for school attendance.
In summary:
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Click for more information* A total of 11 days are needed to be made up.
* The State can grant a waiver of up to 3 days. 2 have already been granted and the District has applied for the 3rd.
* January 30th was converted from a teacher work day (no classes) to a school day which made up 1 day.
* The 5 days of June 19th to the 23rd (3rd week of June) were allocated as make up days if needed and are expected to be used as such.
* Considering all of the above, there remains 2 days to be made up.
* Plans are to maintain the scheduled graduation dates at both high schools but this will require special arrangements for seniors. No specifics were given.
The District said the options for making up these last 2 days include scheduling two more days of classes during one or a combination of the following.
* the last week of June
* Spring Break (April 3rd to 7th)
* two Saturdays
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Click for more informationAccording to the District announcement, “Our next steps will be to meet with union leaders and to solicit input from others who will be impacted by schedule changes.”
SURVEY
If you were in charge, how would you decide to make up the remaining two school days? Select your choice below and click submit. Results will be published later.
2/16/17 7:30am
A tally of 178 readers’ choices of their preferred option (could only choose one) for making up the last two (or more) snow days base in an unofficial survey (excluding repeat entries) is as follows.
| Option | Votes | Percent |
| 2 days during Spring Break | 43 | 24% |
| Use all of Spring Break | 37 | 21% |
| 2 days during 4th week in June | 25 | 14% |
| 1 day during Spring Break and 1 Saturday | 19 | 11% |
| 2 Saturdays | 17 | 10% |
| Use all of 4th week in June | 17 | 10% |
| Use more Saturdays | 12 | 7% |
| 1 day during Spring Break and 1 day during 4th week in June | 7 | 4% |
| 1 Saturday and 1 day during 4th week in June | 1 | 1% |