Friday is the Final Day To Complete School's Snow Day Survey

The Framingham Public Schools is conducting a survey of parents and staff to determine how to make up the seven snow days this school year.

The 185th day of school is Wednesday, June 24.

Discussions on making up snow days have included having the sixth and seventh snow days on Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26 or taking away two days from April vacation. Other options have included giving up Good Friday or going to school on Saturday.

Last week, Superintendent of Schools Stacy Scot indicated he was leaning towards April vacation days to make up the sixth and seventh (and subsequent snow days if any more occurred).

At Tuesday night’s, School Committee meeting, Scott indicated he was against having school on Good Friday and leaning towards making up the sixth and seventh snow days on June 25 & 26.

The 7-member elected School Committee has oversight on the school calendar.

The chair of the Committee has said the Committee would take a vote on how to make up snow days after the results of a survey are complete. That vote is scheduled for Tuesday, March 17.

The survey was announced last Friday, Feb. 27.

The deadline to take the survey is today, March 6, said Scott.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Scott gave the School Committee a preview of the “snow day” survey results thus far.

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He said more than 1,700 individuals had taken the survey. He said about 650 survey takers were staff, more than 900 were parents, and another 150 were students.

Scott said while 48 percent of the survey users were in favor of giving up Good Friday (April 3) for a snow day, he said he had “difficulty” recommending that as he has heard from several “pastors” in the community.

In regards to using April vacation days to make up snow days or extending the calendar in June, he said survey respondents were split at 23 percent each.

School Committee member Don Taggart said that just means “everyone will be heard” with the survey but that “everyone will not be satisfied” with the vote.

“No matter what we decide 50 percent will be upset they did not get their way,” said Taggart.

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To take the survey, use one of the links below:

• English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FPSsnowsurvey
• Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nieve
• Portuguese: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/neve