How do we decide?
Late start times and procedures
District 112 making every effort to plan for inclement weather while working toward maximizing the number of days that students receive instruction on our originally adopted school calendar. For every day that school is suspended for weather conditions, students will need to attend school later in the summer when classrooms are often uncomfortably warm and summer school and camp schedules are interrupted, or attend on a previously scheduled school holiday.
Two critical factors in making a decision to close schools are the travel conditions of area streets and the likelihood of dangerously unsafe temperatures.
When inclement weather threatens, district staff begin planning our response during the night with the goal of finalizing a plan by 5:00 a.m. One of three responses will be considered:
- Opening school on the regular schedule with bus transportation provided as close to the regular pick up times as possible.
- Opening school on a late start schedule of 10:00 a.m. at middle school and 10:40 a.m. at elementary school with bus pick-ups two hours later than normal. Late start times and procedures.
- Canceling attendance at all schools with an additional day added to the school calendar on a previously scheduled school holiday or at the end of the school year.
Every effort will be made to maintain school on a normal schedule. When it appears that some additional time will allow for the clearing of parking lots and the safe transport of students, a late start will be implemented. When it appears that parking lots and streets cannot be cleared to allow for safe bus and car travel, school will be cancelled.
The most reliable sources of information for our families will be our district website www.nssd112.org., our answering machines in each school and our emergency alert system.
Although we will also use broadcast media to get this information to you, our experience is that radio or television reports may contain erroneous information due to the large volume of information they are attempting to broadcast to the public. We will also attempt to get this information onto public access cable television. Click here for frequency and channel information.