Students in Christian County Public Schools and those in the city’s three private schools — Heritage Christian Academy, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School and University Heights Academy — will remain out of their classrooms until next week.
All of the schools made the decision to keep students home for the remainder of this week because many streets and roads are still packed with ice and snow following the massive winter storm that swept across much of the United States over the weekend. Now dangerously cold temperatures have gripped the region.
“Unfortunately the extended cold temperatures have not allowed snow covered roads and campuses to adequately clear,” a CCPS spokeswoman said in a press release.
All of the missed days this week in the public schools — and most in the private schools — are considered non-traditional instruction days, NTI. Schools give students assignments to do a home on NTI days so they don’t have to make up so-called snow days that would be tagged onto the end of the school year…