No snow days this semester

There will be no observed snow/emergency days in the first semester of the school year. Unit 1 School District Superintendent Dr. Kent Bugg said with winter coming, school administrators have discussed and recommended using e-learning days in lieu of emergency days should a significant snowfall or weather event occur that would make getting to school difficult. Changes were made last year to allow school districts to use e-learning days in exchange for emergency days, and even though the school district rarely uses emergency days in the months of November and December a process is now in place that would allow school to continue on a temporary remote basis for all. The use of e-learning days in lieu of emergency days is only for the first semester, according to Bugg. “The first semester is shorter and we don’t want to loose anytime in front of our kids if we don’t have too. If we have any emergency weather days the second semester [January to May] we would plan on using our emergency days and make those up at the end of the year,” Bugg said. “We feel like this is the best use of our time, and as you know we’ve already lost so much time in front of our kids, we don’t want to loose anymore than we have to,” the superintendent said.