Parent discretion day in the Erie School District on Thursday

David Bruce, Erie Times-News
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A rise in COVID-19 cases could force more Erie County and northwestern Pennsylvania schools to switch to remote learning due to the number of students with COVID-19 or a lack of staffing.

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Snow covers the trees and sidewalks at the Erie School District's Patrick J. DiPaolo Student Success Center at Emerson-Gridley in Erie on Wednesday. The district is operating on Thursday under their parent discretion day rules due to extremely low temperatures and wind chill.
Snow covers the trees and sidewalks at the Erie School District's Patrick J. DiPaolo Student Success Center at Emerson-Gridley in Erie on Wednesday. The district is operating on Thursday under their parent discretion day rules due to extremely low temperatures and wind chill.

Erie School District parent discretion day

On Thursday, the Erie School District will operate as a parent discretion day, due to the extremely cold temperatures and wind chill.

At 6:45 a.m. Thursday, the temperature was 9 degrees with a -9-degree wind chill at the Erie International Airport, according to the National Weather Service in Cleveland. Thursday's high is expected to be 29 degrees. A Wind Chill Advisory is in effect until 11 a.m.

On parent discretion days in the Erie School District, parents may make a determination whether to send their child to school. If a child misses school on an official parent discretion day, the parent must send a written excuse regarding the weather-related absence with their child upon the child’s return to school. Failure to do so will result in the absence recorded as unexcused.

Schools will operate as normal and district buildings are open today.

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In the corner of her bedroom, Isabella Poff, then 10, uses a school district-provided Chromebook laptop to greet her classmates and teacher, on Sept. 8, 2020, on the first day of classes for the Erie School District that year. Poff was a fifth-grader at Grover Cleveland Elementary School.
In the corner of her bedroom, Isabella Poff, then 10, uses a school district-provided Chromebook laptop to greet her classmates and teacher, on Sept. 8, 2020, on the first day of classes for the Erie School District that year. Poff was a fifth-grader at Grover Cleveland Elementary School.

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