Schools won’t have to open for extra days after hurricane closures

Education Correspondent

Schools will not be directed to reopen for an extra two days after their enforced closure by the Department of Education on Monday and Tuesday. Primary schools are required to open for 183 days in each school year, and second-level schools for 167 days, but flexibility is allowed for making up time lost to unforeseen closures.

A department spokesperson told the Irish Examiner that schools will not be directed to open an extra two days, or other additional days lost because of Monday’s storm. Instead, schools are being referred to guidance on contingency arrangements about closures caused by unforeseen circumstances.