This article won honorable mention in the 2020 Michigan Interscholastic Press Association spring awards ceremony.
On the afternoon of March 5, Northview students and families got an email that many were dreading: the announcement of an additional four days added on our school calendar.
Michigan requires schools to be held for 180 days as well as 1098 minutes of instructional time. Six cancellation days are automatically forgiven and a waiver is available to be forgiven for three more. But Northview, along with many other schools in the state of Michigan, broke that number this year by calling off school 13 times.
After applying for the waiver, administration must turn to the Northview Education Association (NEA) for further calendar changes. NEA President Matt Coty and Interim Deputy Superintendent Elizabeth Cotter met and decided the only way to comply with Michigan’s standards was to add more days onto the year.
Still, even after officially adding days onto the school year, there is still hope that new legislation will come out and forgive any remaining snow days that schools around the state cannot account for.
Northview Superintendent Dr. Scott Korpak is still positive about the thought that this legislation may be released within the next two weeks.
With this adjusted schedule, M-STEP, PSAT/SAT, AP test schedule, and the senior’s last day will all remain the same. Also, June 5-7 and June 10 will be full days and June 11-13 will be half days.
