Grand Rapids Public Schools expects to count Thursday as a snow day due to low attendance.
In a statement sent to 24 Hour News 8, GRPS Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal said the district may not be able to count Thursday as a school day because it appears less than 75 percent of student attended class. The district will not have the final numbers until midnight, but if it cannot reach the 75 percent attendance threshold, Thursday will count as a snow day.
GRPS says the large number of absences may be due to the “Day Without Immigrants” nationwide protests, which are aimed at proving the importance of immigrants in America.
GRPS gets five snow days each academic year before the district must schedule make-up school days