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Parent Info Regarding Make-up Efforts
Friday Feb 19, 2010
To: Parents
From: Dr. Lyn Guy, Superintendent
Subject: The Winter that Never Melts
Date: February 18, 2010
First of all, I want to thank all of you for your patience and understanding during what has been one of the most challenging winters ever for Monroe County Schools. While folks tell me it was this bad during the mid 1970\'s, or that the early 1980\'s were worse, it has been the most difficult I’ve dealt with in my school career. Officials
at the state department tell me that since December 18, there hasn’t been a single day when all the counties in WV were in session. So it’s not just Monroe County. Counties around us, across the state and on the entire east coast have had the same difficulties.This information should help you with your planning for the remainder of the year.
1. WV Law sets the start day and the end day for each county’s calendar. The local Board sets the 200 day contract period for its employees, and the 180 days of school for students in between the start and end set by the law. We had five days set aside for make-up days and those days have already been rescheduled as instructional days on June 2,3,4,7,8. The last day for students will now be June 8.
2. April 5-9 (spring break) are days that are outside of the employment calendar this contract year, so legally we cannot use them for make-up days. We will still have spring break because we cannot use it for instruction.
3. The State Superintendent has given us the option of using our ISE days for instruction. This means that April 2, and June 1, will now be early release days for students in order to allow for the legally required two hour faculty senate meetings.
3. Finally, we have spent considerable time planning
This has been an extraordinary winter, to say the least. Please help us help your child re-focus on academics and as we dedicate the remaining days of instruction to preparing to help your child have a successful school year. Their success on the state tests means they have gotten a year’s worth of learning so with our time cut short, it’s going to be hard on everyone. We will need your help more than ever if our students are to do their very best come spring (and spring will happen...)
Please call if you have questions or suggestions, or email me at
lgguy@access.k12.wv.us. Thank you.More News
