Late-season snow blast extends year for PAS students

by Carley Bruner

The bad times of winter have delayed a lot of peoples’ summer vacations. If you take a look all around Hillsdale and Lenawee County you will notice that everyone is getting out at a different time this year.

We used to have to be in school according to days, but instead we now go by hours. It is a Michigan law that we are in school for 1,098 hours a year. Here at Pittsford we have a day and a half to make up, which is about 10-11 hours. “We will now be going until June 1,” commented Principal Mr. Cook. This is as of now, which means that could change We are in the spring season right now, which could bring fog delays. Just three delays would give us another whole day of school to add on at the end of the year. The exams have also been moved farther into the summer.

Even though all MI schools have to be in session for at least 1,098 hours, not all schools are getting out for the summer on the same day. This is because all of the schools are run differently and start and end at different times of the day. For example, Hillsdale starts at 7:30 and gets out at 2:30. So it’s not like they get a shorter day than us; besides they will be there until June 12.

One of the main things that lengthen out our school year is having days or hours off, such as the three days that we get out two hours early for professional development day. Or another example is we just had March 27-April 5 off for spring break, then we turned around and had Good Friday off. It would have shortened our school year if we would have just taken April 3-12 off because we would cover not having school for Good Friday.