If Anglophone East schools are forced to close their doors on Wednesday, due to the storm, it will mean nine snow days this year total.
Superintendent Gregg Ingersoll says he often gets questions on how those days will be made up.
He says there’s no simple answer to that question, but there are options, “Certainly, we have talked about and explored, as technology becomes more prevalent in our schools and homes. There are certainly ways we can use technology to make resources and assignments available to students when they are at home. Many teachers are doing that now, but not all. One of the issues is that not all students have access to computers and other technology at home.”
He says technology can also be used for summer learning, “Because we always have concerns about the two months off and the gaps for some students and their learning.”
Ingersoll says some parents have suggested just adding days to the school year, “But that has to be negotiated with the teachers union. The teachers collective agreement has the number of days that teachers work and the number of days that students are in schools. That is part of that collective agreement, so you can’t just add days to the year because of that. You could but that would save to be a negotiated item.
During the 2014-2015 school year, there were a total of 16 snow days for the Anglophone East School District.
