1/28/14 - With today another snow day in the Brighton Area School District, Brighton will be at its limit for snow days, with the sixth snow day of the year. One school in the Brighton Area School District, in fact, is already over the limit. Thatâs Brighton High School, which is experiencing its seventh snow day of the season today. Brighton Superintendent Greg Gray tells WHMI that means even if there are no more snow days this year, the day will have to be made up. And Gray says the scary thing is that there are about two months of winter left. Any other Brighton schools that have additional snow days will also have to make them up, Gray says. Gray says the procedure in the Brighton Area Schools is to close schools if the wind chill factor is minus 20 or below. Wind chill is the rate of heat loss to the body resulting from the combination of the air temperature and wind velocity. That is a critical factor, Gray says, when children have to wait outside for extended periods of time at school bus stops. School districts in Michigan are required by the state to provide 170 days of instruction, a figure which will go up to 175 next year. Snow days will be even harder to make up if Michigan has another winter in 2015 like weâre going through this year. Gray is considering several ways to make up the lost instructional time for Januaryâs deep freeze and record snowfall, including extending the school day, reducing the length of spring break or tacking extra days onto the school year. However, he says the latter is unlikely at the high school, due to the summer construction timetable. (TT)
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