SNOW DAYSCatoosa County Public SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 3Plan: Students will attend class Feb. 17, March 17 and March 21, all of which previously were school holidays.Calhoun City SchoolsSnow days used: 5Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend class Feb. 22 to Feb. 25, previously a winter break.Chickamauga City SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend classes on one holiday, President’s Day (Monday), and Good Friday (April 22), which is scheduled to be an early release day.Chattooga County SchoolsSnow days used: 5Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend class on three Mondays that previously were scheduled as off days: March 14, March 28 and April 18.Dade County SchoolsSnow days used: 5Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend classes on two days that previously were holidays: March 18 and May 13. Students made up one day on Jan. 17.Dalton Public SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend classes Monday and April 22, two previously scheduled holidays.Gordon County SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend class on March 11, previously a holiday, and the school day will has been lengthened by 15 minutes until April 1.Murray County SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend classes on Presidents Day and Good Friday.Trion City SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend class on two days previously designated as “furlough days.”Walker County SchoolsSnow days used: 9Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students are attending classes 15 minutes longer than usual, and they will attend classes Monday and March 11.Whitfield County SchoolsSnow days used: 6Snow days scheduled: 4Plan: Students will attend classes on Presidents Day and Good Friday.TENNESSEEHamilton CountySnow days used: 7Snow days scheduled: 7Plan: No action is needed, but if any more days are missed school days will be lengthened.Bradley CountySnow days used: 7Snow days scheduled: 7Plan: No action is needed if no more days are missed.Cleveland CitySnow days used: 7Snow days scheduled: 11Plan: The system still has several days left to use in case of future bad weather.Grundy CountySnow days used: 15Snow days scheduled: 10Plan: Students will attend class Monday, March 8, 21 and 22 as well as April 2 to make up the days.Marion CountySnow days used: 11Snow days scheduled: 9Plan: School leaders may add days to the school calendarPolk CountySnow days used: 15Snow days scheduled: 10Plan: School leaders haven’t decided how to make up the days.Sequatchie CountySnow days used: 12Snow days scheduled: 11Plan: Students will attend class on Presidents Day.
Students in some school systems across the region missed up to 15 days of class this year as heavy ice and snowstorms swept the area.
Leaders are holding their breath now, hoping no more snow is coming, but they also are trying to devise plans to deal with the time students already have spent away from their books.
In Georgia, the state in most cases allotted four days for snow and bad weather or schoolwide illness such as an influenza outbreak.
Tennessee, with dozens of schools in eastern mountain communities, allows up to 13 days, but many systems used some of those for teacher planning.