It was an early start to winter last week and we got to experience our first snow day. If you did not get a phone call or text when school was cancelled on Tuesday, we do not have your correct phone numbers in Power Announcement. When you log in to PowerSchool you will see a tab on the left side of the screen to enter your Power Announcement information. Please click that tab and check your phone numbers if you were not contacted on Tuesday.
Please note we need your full ten-digit phone numbers in Power Announcement because the calls are not generated from Escanaba. If your cell phone number is 555-5555 then you need to enter that number as 906-555-5555 in Power Announcement. Power Announcement ignores any phone numbers with less than ten numbers in them.
One concern we hear from parents on snow days is how early the phone calls and texts go out. We have received complaints from parents who do not want to receive a phone call or text at 5:30 a.m. Those calls and texts go out that early because we have students who are picked up by the bus shortly after 6:00 a.m. We have to make the calls early to warn those students before they go out and start waiting for their busses.
Most of the time when we have bad weather we close school for the entire day. Once in a great while we decide to start school on a two-hour delay. Please click on the link below to see the two-hour delay schedule for EHS.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6VFr_0blhp2cVZRVVZfZUM0ajQ/view?usp=sharingIf we have a two-hour delay, everything starts exactly two hours later than normal and school will end at the normal time. For example, our school day starts at 7:35 a.m. You will see on the two-hour delay schedule that school will start at 9:35 a.m., two hours later than normal.
This also applies to bus routes. All bus routes will be two hours later than normal. If your children are normally picked up by the bus at 6:40 a.m., they will be picked up at 8:40 a.m. if we have a two-hour delay.
