Most Students Won't Have to Make Up Snow Days (Unless There's Another Storm)

Even though Strongsville schools were closed four days because of bad weather -- one more than allowed by state law -- students will not have to make up a day, Superintendent Jeff Lampert said.

Lampert said one extra day was included in the school calendar this year. That means even though the district closed schools four times, students will still attend the required number of days -- barring another snowstorm.

"Right now, we're OK," Lampert said. "We had one more day built into the calendar than required."

The only exception is , which was closed twice when other schools were not -- once in the fall for electrical problems and on Monday, when flood waters lapped at the school's door.

Lampert said right now, the tentative plan is to have Drake students continue classes for two days after district's last school day June 9, on Friday, June 10 and Monday, June 13.

Drake parents are being notified of that this week.

However, that could change. State legislators have introduced bills that would restore the number of calamity days to five, or that would allow students to make up class time by tacking it onto the end of the day, rather than adding days.

For the rest of the district, though, that should not be a problem, according to Lampert.

"The district is still OK, pending Mother Nature," he said.