NORTH LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Several Arkansas school districts were out for snow last week and some were even out the entire week, leaving five days of school to make up.
North Little Rock School District has a way where students don’t have to give up those summer days but it will mean giving up extra time outside of school on Wednesdays of this semester.
"This year has been our very first year with early release," said Dr. Gregory Pilewski, North Little Rock School District superintendent. "We early release full weeks on Wednesdays about an hour and a half earlier that are purely to target teacher professional development, teacher collaborative planning, and individual planning.”
A survey was sent out to parents asking if they would like to suspend those early release days which would make up about four or five days that they missed for snow.
"What we want to gather from the community from our parents is to say, in order to make up these four or five days, would you be okay to temporarily suspend early release for the remainder of this school year," said Pilewski.
So far, the district has received about a thousand responses from parents and Pilewski said after hearing from faculty and staff, they are trying their best not to go into the summer days.
"Really going into June, whether I talked to teachers or parents, that has been kind of our tradition getting out right before Memorial Day, so I don’t think there is much of an appetite to kind of go more days into June," said Pilewski.
He said the plan is to bring those early release days back at the start of next year.
"We kind of had to put everything on hold for our plan and it looks like we might have to put it on hold for the second semester," said Pilewski. "Right now our calendar for next year has early release built in and so I am hoping we will get off to a better start, a smoother start as we go into next year.”
KATV spoke to a parent of a North Little Rock student who said she is on board with the temporary suspension, but said whatever is best for the students to make up those hours, she is on board with either option.
Parents have until Tuesday, January 30 at noon to fill out the survey on their decision.
A decision based on those results will be presented during the school board meeting that same day.
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