BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay County Schools Superintendent David Broskie said students would not have to make up the three days of school lost to Hurricane Ian.
He explained that state statute requires 900 hours of instruction each year and that the school district’s calendar has enough additional hours to absorb the three days lost.
“But I will warn you now,” Broskie said during the Oct. 6 school board meeting, “We’re at the breaking point, and we’re still in hurricane season for another month. So, if more days are missed, then we’d have to analyze that for potential make-up days.”
Broskie added that five schools were used as storm shelters as the hurricane approached the area: Clay High, Keystone Heights High, Lake Asbury Junior High, Orange Park High and Wilkinson Elementary.
He said school administrators stayed on campus at the shelters 24 hours, and food service provided meals for evacuees; transportation bussed special needs evacuees to Lake Asbury Junior High. The district police department provided security at the shelters.
