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Show What to do when it snows Students may cheer when a school day is cancelled because of snow, but they sing a different tune when that day has to be made up in the summer. So to minimize the number of days lost from summer vacation, the Park City School District has devised a policy which gives the snow plows the benefit of the doubt. On particularly snowy mornings a school district official will make a decision at 6:30 a.m. whether to cancel school for the day or whether to delay the beginning of the day by two hours, explained superintendent Tony Mitchell. If road conditions improve by 8:30 a.m. the delay day will be in effect. Buses will pick students up exactly two hours later than the regular schedule, said Mitchell. However school will be dismissed at the normal time. The only students who would not attend school on a delay day would be the morning kindergarteners, kindergar-teners, he added. If it is determined roads are still unsafe at 8:30 a.m., school will be cancelled for the day. Mitchell said the best way for parents and students to keep posted is to listen to KPCW or call the individual schools. "We would ask, though, that parents and students refrain from calling the radio station, because it makes it hard for the district office to get through to tell them what's going on." Information also will be available by calling the school bus garage at 649-6560. Mitchell added that five of the district's school buses now are equipped with automatic tire chains. |