Winter is still about one third from being over and the threat of bad weather and/or weather related illness will exist for awhile. Local school officials are hoping they won’t have to miss many more days, if any, prior to the end of the 2014-15 school year.

However, with the days already missed, the calendar has already been extended a few days into the month of May and is expected to be amended at the next regular meeting of the board of education next Monday, according to Director of Pupil Personnel Julie York.

As of early this week, a total of six class days had been missed in Clinton County–for three different and varied reasons–but with the inclusion of some days becoming class days and the fact the district had two optional days in which it is not mandatory to make up, if no more school is missed the rest of the year, only three days would be added for students in the spring, from the initial May 18 last day for students to May 21.

The six days that classes have been dismissed so far include one day back in September when an early morning bomb threat prompted schools not to open at all that day.

Three days have been missed due to weather, or snow days, and two additional days were missed in late January due to the CCHS Lady Bulldogs’ participation in the All “A” State Tournament.

Two of the make-up days will be made up during the remainder of the school year starting this month as students will attend class on Monday and Tuesday, February 16 and 17. Those days had originally been non-class days for President’s Day and a teacher professional day.

York said the school calendar called for 172 student instructional days, but only 170 are mandatory, so the district had “two days to play with,” leaving only a couple to make up. With one day in the mix being an election day when there is no school in Kentucky, that day and the remaining two days will be added to the calendar at this point.

York emphasized that this new “revised” amended version of the school calendar, if approved by the board next week, would only be tentative, since there is still over three months until the end of school and many things could take place to cause classes to be cancelled later. Should that occur, the calendar would once again have to be revised.