December 2nd, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Today’s snow event afforded Kris Kehrwald of Allegany County Public Schools the chance to review the school system’s inclement weather policy with WCBC.  Kehrwald said the state allows the system three full “snow days” per year where classes are cancelled and made up at the end of the school year.  After that, bad weather days are spent in virtual synchronous learning…

   

“Students are logged in. They’re working with their teachers. They’re doing different activities and they’re going to do that for four hours. And then following that, students will have something that’s called asynchronous learning and those will be asynchronous learning activities. And those will vary from class to class, grade to grade, depending on what teachers have planned for those.”