Saturday school possible

Alleghany County Schools may be in session this Saturday. School officials had earlier hoped to avoid using Saturdays as make-up days.

However, with a total of 12 days missed from the school year — nine of them yet to be made up — and more snow and ice in the weather forecast for this week, the school system is reaching deep into its bag of options.

Superintendent Duane Davis said Tuesday that if one or more days of school are missed this week, pupils will attend school this Saturday, March 1 — provided the weather clears up enough by then to allow that. Davis said he has been talking with school principals this week about the possibility of additional missed days.

Of the 12 days missed from the 2002-03 school year so far, two of them — missed in early December — were made up in mid-December, just before the holiday break. Monday (Feb. 24), originally slated as a no-school day for parent-teacher conferences, was also used as a make-up day. (The conferences will be held March 10, although pupils will attend classes that day as well, with the conferences scheduled in the afternoon and evening.)

Seven of the missed days will be made up at the end of the school year. Originally scheduled for May 21, the last day of school has been moved back to May 30.

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