Any suggestions for handling makeup days for weather-related school day closings?
Non-public schools are exempt from all laws governing public schools except for those relating to building code, sanitation and immunization requirements. Non-public school laws mandate a school year of at least nine calendar months excluding reasonable holidays and vacations. No specific minimum number of days or number of hours per day are given. They also do not address the issue of weather-related school closings and the makeup of them. DNPE suggests that, in most cases, school days missed because of weather-related closings be made up within the school year. Most non-public schools build several adverse weather days into each school year’s calendar. When those have already been utilized, Saturday sessions are permissible and sometimes advantageous during the months of January or February (and, if possible, at the end of the week in which school was closed earlier in that week because of weather problems). Other non-public schools prefer instead to add extra days at the end of the
