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Guidelines for Two-Hour Early Closing on the day before a Holiday

  • The kindergarten a.m. and p.m. midday runs will be on a Monday early closing schedule. The p.m. kindergarten students will be released with grades 1 – 6 and will go home as usual. 

  • Head Start (FECEP), preschool and Alternative Learning Center (ALC) schedules will be modified individually and coordinated between transportation and program staff.

  • Morning preschool will release on a Monday early closing schedule.  Afternoon preschool will follow the Monday arrival schedule but will release two hours earlier than Tuesday-Friday closing schedule.  PAC’s Wednesday early release will be canceled and will release two hours earlier than the regular Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday schedule.

  • All other classes will dismiss two hours earlier than the regular Tuesday-Friday closing schedule. (The reason we don't put full-day kindergarten classes and grades 1-6 on the Monday early closing schedule is that it would conflict with the middle and high school bus runs.)

  • Limited pre-approved school activities are allowed (i.e. athletic scrimmages); however, all regular late bus runs are canceled.

  • The transportation office will be contacting each school to work out individual issues and exact pick-up times for all students. Although the intent is to dismiss two hours early, minor adjustments may need to be made at individual schools.

  • Afternoon Career and Technical Education and afternoon academy courses are canceled for all students transported to high school academies, specialized programs, or nonschool-based locations.

  • Recreation programs and community activities are NOT canceled.

  • SACC programs will be available for students when classes are dismissed and will run until 6:15 p.m. or until the last child is picked up.

 

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Last update: November 10, 2009
Curator: Nancy Moy, Nancy.Moy@fcps.edu