BY AMANDA STALLINGS

In past years, the school calendar only consisted of six snow make-up days. Now, there are 10 make-up snow days. According to Chief Human Resources Officer Steve Griggs, the extra snow days were added to the calendar so later calendar revisions won’t be needed.

“The reason we added the days is because we found out last year was a very unusual year, and we had to make up days that we had to add to the calendar late,“ Griggs said. “It caused lots of problems for everyone because we were making up days that weren’t originally on the calendar.”

In the past, spring break has only been one week long. Now, because of the revised calendar, spring break is two weeks long to allow time for three of the last make-up days.

“We do have one full week of spring break that doesn’t have any make-up days included in it, so for students at the high school level, their break is guaranteed to be what they’ve always experienced which is a one week break,” Griggs said.

The last three make-up days are scheduled on April 12, 13 and 14, which are the first three days of spring break.

The changes in the revised calendar are something that haven’t been done in the past, and cause the possibility of cutting not just summer break short but spring break as well.

“I think the built-in snow days are a good idea,” junior Austin Wiedner said. “I just have a lot planned for spring break, and I hope they don’t cut into the days we have off.”