The Board of Education approved several items last night related to this year's school you may share with your teachers, staff, students, parents, and other interested individuals. First, as you know, we have now used 10 stockpiled days for snow. As a result, we asked the Board to make March 11 and 12 actual student days instead of the parent conference and professional development days that had originally been planned. The Board approved this adjustment to the calendar. Accordingly, everyone needs to plan for students to be in school on these two days. If families have made plans to be away with their children for what they expected to be an extended weekend, we will excuse these absences.

April 16---Snow day 14

April 15---Snow day 15

April 14---Snow day 16

April 13---Snow day 17

April 12---Snow day 18

Certainly everyone hopes that we do not have to make use of this plan; however, everyone agreed that this plan is better than adding hours to student days, going on Saturdays, or adding to the end of the school year. We realize that there may be students whose families have planned trips during these days which cannot be changed. Again, as with March 11 and 12, we will excuse such absences. If you have teachers or staff with trips with dates which cannot be cancelled or rescheduled, please let us know so that we can discuss what may be done about this change in the second week of spring break.

Finally, the Board agreed that we may ask the Tennessee Department of Education if we may move our TCAP test dates to April 20 through 23. We will make this phone call to the state today and will let you know immediately if we get approval for the change. While there are indeed several concerns related to this request, we believe that it is in the best interest of our students and teachers to have more instruction time available to us before testing. Even if we miss no more days for inclement weather, the 10 days we have missed since winter break are a source of concern to everyone responsible for having students ready for spring testing. If approval is granted, we will send you more detailed information related to this proposed test date change.

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