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Parent urges Harrison County Schools to reconsider 'ice pack' alternative instruction days
Summary
A parent told the Harrison County Schools Board of Education that 'ice pack' or alternative instruction days reduce meaningful learning time for elementary students and asked the board to consider eliminating them or adding instructional make-up days.
Violet Karen, a parent of an elementary school student, told the Harrison County Schools Board of Education on March 4 that alternative instruction or "ice pack" days provide only a small fraction of normal learning time for younger students and asked the board to consider eliminating those days or restoring the time with in-person make-up days.
"Unlike middle school and high school children, many of the elementary kids are achieving on those ice pack days an extremely small fraction of learning time compared to a normal instruction day," Karen said, adding that she would…
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