The Brown County school board has approved a calendar for next school year that’s similar to the one for this year.
Students will return to school on Aug. 5, 2020, with teachers getting back into the classrooms on Aug. 3.
Fall break is scheduled for Oct. 5 to 9. Thanksgiving break will be Nov. 25 to 27, 2020.
A teacher work day is scheduled for Dec. 18, 2020, with no school for students. Winter break will be Dec. 21 to Jan. 4.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18, 2021, will be a snow make-up day, along with President’s Day on Feb. 15.
Students will be on spring break from March 15 to 19.
The last day of school for the 2020-21 year will be May 20, 2021, unless snow days need to be made up.
One change parents, students and staff may notice is not as many snow make-up days tacked onto the end of the year. For next school year, only five make-up days are included in the calendar beginning with a teacher work day/snow make-up day on May 21. There are nine snow make-up days included in this year’s calendar.
Superintendent Laura Hammack said fewer make-up days are needed because of the plan to use eLearning days in the case of bad weather, unless those days are back-to-back. For example, if school is closed on Monday due to weather, that day will be an eLearning day. But if school is closed that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well, those days will not be eLearning days; they will be regular snow make-up days that will be tacked onto the calendar.
An eLearning plan for the 2020-2021 school year has not yet been approved.
Brown County High School’s commencement for the Class of 2021 will happen the evening of Friday, May 28.
The hope is that having graduation a week after the last day of school and at the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend will allow more educators to attend.
“You guys know we’re really going to try and push to get all of our educators to attend graduation, kindergarten through Grade 12, and we think that we lose a lot of people to vacation and summer happenings after two weeks, so we’re really trying to capture folks while they are still here to be a part of that process,” Hammack said.
“We’re really pleased with it (the calendar). It came together quite well.”
