Dear Parents, Guardians, Students and Staff Members:

With the closure of school on Friday, January 21, it is important that we bring you up to date on where we stand with our emergency closing days.  As you know, we allocate four emergency closing days into our school calendar each year.  As of today, Voorhees is out of days and North Hunterdon has one day remaining (Voorhees had to use one day for a power outage on September 28).

As outlined in our school calendar, school closures that surpass the four allotted emergency closing days will have to be made up through the elimination of previously scheduled holidays when the district would be closed.  If inclement weather or other emergency forces the closure of our schools again, days will be made up in the following order:  President’s Days (Friday, February 18 first then Monday, February 21), Spring Recess beginning with Monday, April 25 and working backwards ending with Monday, April 18 (school would remain closed on April 22 for Good Friday), weekends, and then the extension of the school year thru June 30. 

We have been lucky over the years that our four allotted emergency closing days have been enough to cover most closings during the year.  Unfortunately, it seems this active winter will push us over our allotted days.

We will alert you well ahead of time if and when school needs to be in session on a day originally scheduled to be off.

Sincerely,

Charles M. Shaddow, Ph.D.

Superintendent of Schools