Hanover eases school weather closure policy

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This article was published 08/05/2019 (1806 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Just in time for summer.

Students in Hanover are finally catching a break after the Hanover school trustees voted to change the division’s weather-related school closure policy. All it took? Changing the word “and” to “or.”

The board voted on Tuesday night to change the school closure policy from requiring the temperature to be -35 C and -45 C with the wind chill, to -35 C or -45 C with the wind chill. The change comes after the division received criticism after being the only division to keep schools open one cold morning this winter.

Superintendent Randy Dueck said he expects it will not have a big impact on school closures. In the last six years, Hanover schools would only have closed three extra days if the new policy had been in place.