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STUDENTS SHOWED UP FOR SCHOOL SATURDAY

By Jon Mayhew

While Lincoln County School officials said the planning for school make-up days missed due to the recent snow was “challenging,” parents, students, teachers and staff rose to the “challenge” of having to go to school this past Saturday.

According to the schools’ special projects coordinator Belinda Branson, attendance for the make-up day was outstanding.

“Eighty percent of the students showed up for school on Saturday,” said Branson. “School officials were pleased with the attendance.”

The North Carolina school calendar law states that all students must attend 180 instructional days per school year. Therefore, if days are missed, regardless of the reason, those days must be made up. And while the law states school must be let out by June 10, school systems could add days onto the end of the calendar as make-up days.

Students will be going to school the first Saturday in April, the 4th, to make up for missing March 3 due to snow.

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