Schools set make-up days for time lost to storms

Thanks to fall storms, school districts throughout the North Olympic Peninsula are changing their schedules.

Districts were closed for several days during the post-Thanksgiving snow and other bad weather in the fall and the state requires them to make up those days.

On Tuesday, the Sequim School Board voted unanimously to add three days to the school year, accepting Superintendent Garn Christensen’s recommendation to change the last day of school to June 20 instead of June 15.

Sequim High School’s graduation ceremony will be held as planned on June 8.

Other school district plans are:

  • Port Angeles School District will extend the end of school to June 21.

    The Port Angeles High School commencement will be on June 22, while the Lincoln alternative high school commencement will be on June 23.

  • The Port Townsend School District will make up one day on Feb. 16 and has not decided when three more will be taken, said Rosanne Butler, district secretary.

    The Port Townsend High School graduation ceremonies remain scheduled on June 8.

  • Crescent Consolidated School District will add school days on Feb. 2, March 9 and June 18, said Linda Sage, receptionist/secretary.

    The district, which closed for four days during fall storms, made up one day this week by resuming classes after the holiday break on Tuesday rather than Wednesday.

    High school graduation ceremonies still will be on June 15.

  • The Quillayute Valley School District will add a school day on March 9, said Julie Knobel, assistant to the superintendent. The date for one more make-up day has not been decided.

    High school graduation still will be on June 9.

  • The Cape Flattery School District resumed classes after the holiday on Tuesday rather than Wednesday both in Neah Bay and Clallam Bay to make up one day, said Kandy Ritter, assistant superintendent.

    Clallam Bay schools also dismissed classes for the holidays one day late, on Dec. 20 rather than Dec. 19.

    Neah Bay schools also made up days on Dec. 21, Dec. 22 and Dec. 23.

    More make-up dates will be announced, she said.

    Graduation dates remain June 8 for Clallam Bay High School and June 9 for Neah Bay.

  • Brinnon Elementary School has not yet scheduled three make-up days, said Dalila Dowd, administrative secretary.

  • Messages left with Quilcene and Chimacum school districts on Wednesday were not returned.
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