Snow Days Delay Summer for Area Schoolkids
There’s payback for those winter snow days, especially for Howard County, whose students will be in the classroom later into the summer.
Howard County students are among those who will be in school the latest in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., region this year due to four snow days this winter. Howard County students will be in school until Wednesday, June 22. Originally, students were scheduled to be finished June 16. Both Montgomery and Carroll county schools will finish up June 16 this year, with four and six snow days respectively. Baltimore County, with six snow days this academic year, and Prince George’s county, with four snow days, will both send students home for summer June 17. “I really think the [Howard County] school [district] needs to put some snow days into the calendar,” said Andrea Romberger, an Elkridge resident whose son attends Elkridge Elementary …
