Snowstorm Makeup Days Announced For Prince George's Students

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — Thanks to Mother Nature, the Prince George's County public school system has already used more snow days than it had accounted for in the school calendar.

School officials have had to adjust the school calendar to compensate for those extra days off thanks to an abundance of snow and ice from winter storms.

Five days that students originally had off will now be in-person days: March 20, May 27 and June 15-18.

If the county can’t get a two-day waiver from the state, April 6 and June 22 might also be needed.

Although Presidents’ Day was considered as a potential make-up day, schools and offices will remain closed on Feb. 16, school officials stated.

In the meantime, the school district has unveiled a virtual learning plan in the event of anymore winter storms. The plan will be available on the school's website this Friday.

“If we were to have another snow day, then the plan would be to open virtually on the day,” Andrew Zuckerman, chief information officer for the school district, told WTOP. “If you’re going to use virtual learning for inclement weather, it has to be synchronous, and that does mean live. So that’s why a number of districts opted not to pursue virtual learning when that law changed, and we opted as well. But things have shifted, and this experience with this weather event has made us realize that we do want to have a virtual education day plan for inclement weather in this type of an emergency situation.”

School leaders want parents to communicate if they have enough computers at home for live instruction for every student. They're to do so through the ParentVUE app. Schools will provide Chromebooks to students who need them ahead of a forecasted winter storm.