001hello chris cooper here superintendent of clearwater schools with a brief snow day update i thought with being out three days some people might be wondering if we need to make up days or how that works i'll give you um a little explanation of how we count hours and where we're at currently for this school year the short answer is that we're okay so far we have enough time built in our calendar that at this point we're okay so how much school is required um for kindergarten through 11th grade it's 116 hours each year seniors have to have 1086 hours and pre-k is kind of its own thing so then the next question is what do we count so student contact hours if we have students in class that's for one hour we count one hour
002we can count the whole school day minus lunch so our school days are 405 minutes we literally count every minute we can also count parent teacher conferences so when we're having scheduled parent teacher conferences those count as if we're having school time teacher professional development days we can count one hour as a half an hour of count time so that's how we accumulate hours teacher work days don't count for any time so those are the ways that we count hours to get that to that 116 required hours in the state of kansas so yesterday and today i've reviewed all of our daily logs from each of the buildings and then also looked at the schedule and predicted out where we will be if we don't miss any more days and that's where i came up
003with the determination that we're still okay 11 through k through 11 has still about 17 15 hours of extra time seniors are getting a little tighter with 10 hours of extra time so um then the question is what happens if we miss more and we go beyond that so each year i have to designate uh makeup days for snow days and uh this year the the three days that i had that i designated were um april 18th which is the monday after easter that's not normally a day off for us but on this year's calendar it is a day off so if we were to miss several more days because of inclement weather monday april 18th would be a day we would have school and then the other two designated snow days are the two
004days after our scheduled end of school which would be may 18th and may 19th so again right now we're okay we're not there yet this is that scenario would be only if we missed more but i just wanted to catch people up with how that works we could also look at adding minutes to the day if we had several days left but i want to meet those requirements obviously by the state as always we want to go above and beyond the requirements and that's one of the reasons we do have some extra days built in i also want to say thanks to our crews that were out working this week we ended up not being able to have school today on friday but uh things will be in great shape come monday because of their
005work so our operations director gary welch i know was out uh mark pells michael hall and also uh jason martin's crew of matt klosmeier and tate martin were out and working a lot to get our facilities ready to go for school so appreciate all the work they did so as i said just a brief update want to let people know where we're at on that that's all i have for today this is mr cooper signing off work hard have fun and be your best self