Green Bay Area School District will be avoiding adding one more school day in June.
The change was needed to make up for instructional minutes lost during winter weather last week.
“It was decided that adding three minutes on to each day for the rest of the school year, was less distruptive than having students have to come back on that Monday.”
Lori Blakeslee, Director of Communications for the District says the decision was made so students and staff did not have to come back on Monday June 11th and allow for family summer activities to go as planned.
She said they had to ask themselves a question.
“Does that Monday already conflict with things that people have on a schedule, such as camp or vacation?”
For the middle school and high school, the last period of the day will have three extra minutes added to it, and busses will only be affected by the three minutes.
Blakeslee says if they happen to have another snowday, they will have to go back to the drawing board again.
In recent years, the state required schools to have a certain number of instructional minutes rather than instructional days.
