Kind of an off the wall hurricane question (Houston, Beaumont: spring break, bankrupt)

[surfs1st]

We are moving to Houston sometime around the beginning of May. We have a 9 year old son that we are going to need to enroll in the 4th grade when we arrive.

Here's the question. Is the school system going to tack on extra days at the end of the year to make up for all the lost days due to hurricane Ike?

Not that my kid couldn't use the extra school, after all he is attending the bankrupt and failing school system that is CA public education. I just thought that would be a tough break, starting school in early Aug and getting out in Jul, or something like that.

[buffy888]

Depending on how the district's schedule was created, yes, they may have to add on extra days. Most districts have at least a day or 2 built in for bad weather (i.e., on the schedule it will say the day is a holiday or day off, but it will also indicate it is a bad weather make-up day or something similar). Texas law dictates the number of days students must be in school, so unless the district is very flexible and adept at moving things around (for example, a teacher workday could become a half day of instruction - do that a few times and they could make up the days - but since teacher workdays do have an actual purpose which is not to give teachers time off, they would have to figure out how to find that time for the teachers...).

I looked at websites for a few of the different districts and some of them mention possibly re-opening by next week - some or all of the schools in the district. So if those schools are able to get back by next week, then they really won't have missed that many days.

[texas7]

Most schools here do tack on extra days to make up lost days so my guess would be yes.

[southeasttexas]

We went through this with Rita in 2005. The districts, with state approval, got to waive UP TO two weeks in an extream situation. The time PAST two weeks could be recoverd by shortening the Christmas hoildays off, or, spring break, etc. My guess is that HISD schedual won't be affected much, unlike Galveston or Beaumont area ISD's.