Bowling Green students will be in school for 30 extra minutes for over a month to help make up days lost
to inclement weather.
At Tuesday’s board of education meeting, Superintendent Ann McVey received approval from board members to
amend the 2013-14 school calendar to also tack on four days to the end of the school year, taking
students to June 5.
Students will see their school day extended when they return from spring break, April 7 to May 28.
At the elementary level, a 30-minute math intervention period will be incorporated to the school day and
a schedule will be worked out for morning and afternoon kindergarten.
McVey is meeting with middle school and high school principals today to work on their schedule.
"We think that’s the simplest for families to understand," she said.
The district to date has missed 17 days of school.
"We stand behind every day the district was closed," McVey stated about her decisions to cancel
classes.
The state excuses five days, and last week gave districts four more as long as they made up four days.

In Bowling Green, by adding hours to 36 school days that makes up three days. Add Presidents’ Day as the
fourth make up day and the nine now allowed by the state and that brings the district to 13 excused days
meaning it has to only make up four days.
The last day of classes had originally been May 30.
If necessary, another calamity make-up day will be added June 6.
"We’re really trying to hold fast to June 6 as an ending date," she said.
Also at the meeting, the board learned the Bowling Green Schools Foundation will donate $10 to pay for
every fifth-grader to attend camp next year. The total amount of the donation is $2,400.
Paul Reinhart, a fifth-grade teacher at Conneaut Elementary and a foundation member, indicated a lot of
students find it difficult to pay the necessary fee.
The $10 will cover the increase in the cost to attend camp next fall.
"It’s a small group of people working very hard for the students of Bowling Green," McVey said.

The board also approved a change in the graduation requirement starting with the class of 2015.
Students can opt out of physical education as long as they participate in interscholastic athletics,
marching band or cheerleading for at least two full seasons while enrolled in the high school.
If a student reaches his or her senior year without being involved for two seasons on a team or band,
that student will automatically be signed up for phys ed.
The 22 credits needed to graduate will stay the same.
What this does is free up time for students to take additional electives, McVey explained.
The waiver is outlined by the Ohio Department of Education and is up to individual boards to adopt.
The board also:
• Accepted retirement resignation requests from Alice Hackworth, high school family and consumer
sciences; Christa Bringman, high school math and foreign language; Terri Kale, Kenwood second grade;
Paula Hermes, Crim fourth grade; Terrance Mulgrew, high school social studies; Amy Rahmel, Crim third
grade; and Luanne Strow, Crim preschool speech and language therapist.
• Accepted the resignations of Cale Hover, high school science; and Amy Scherer, executive director of
pupil services.