Granby Board of Ed Approves School Calendars

The first day of school for Granby students will officially start on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, the day after Labor Day, according to the calendar the Board of Education approved Wednesday evening. 

“A couple meetings ago, we said to bring back the calendars when they were completed with half days and everything else,” said Superintendent of Schools Alan Addley. “You see them before you.”

The board voted to accept the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school calendars as presented.

For the 2012-13 school year, vacations cover Dec. 24, 2012 through Jan. 1, 2013, Feb. 18 to 19, 2013 and then from April 15 to 19, 2013. 

Barring no changes to the calendar due to unforeseen circumstances such as this year’s record snow fall, the last day of school would fall on June 13. 

For both school years, the day after Memorial Day, May 28 in 2013 and May 27 in 2014 is a professional development day. 

Board of Education member Ed Ohannessian asked why the day after Memorial Day was chosen for this purpose. 

“We typically have an extra professional day,” Addley said. 

Such a day, Addley said, would be used for purposes such as school improvement plans. Addley said there is also the option of utilizing that day for school make-up for snow days, as was done this year to make up for the many snow days the district had to endure. 

For the 2013-14 school year, the first day of school is slated for Thursday, Sept. 5. The start date was moved from the third to the fifth, Addley said. 

Vacations for that school year include Dec. 23, 2013 through Jan. 1, 2014, February break will run from Feb. 17-18 and April vacation from April 14-18, 2014. 

The last day of school, according to the calendar, is Friday, June 13. 

Ohannessian asked Addley if the district had considered moving the annual April vacation to the month of March instead. 

In response, Addley said, “There’s no desire for that on our behalf.”