Vermilion Parish public schools to dismiss early due to weather
KATC
and last updated 2021-03-17 11:45:32-04
Vermilion Parish Schools will be dismissing early on Wednesday due to the threat of severe weather on Wednesday.
Superintendent Tommy Byler says that the school system will transition into an early dismissal protocol beginning at 12:30 pm.
All high schools will dismiss at 12:30 pm and elementary schools will dismiss at 1:00 pm or 1:15 pm. All normal end of day times should be moved up two hours, a Facebook post reads. We donât want buses on the road during the height of the storm for the safety of our students and drivers.
Another Acadiana school district is making the move back to face-to-face instruction. Vermilion Parish middle and high school students will be returning to school full-time from hybrid learning in February.
Vermilion Parish Superintendent Tommy Byler says elementary school students will remain in a hybrid learning schedule that was put in place in fall 2020.
The transition will begin on Monday, February 1 with a hybrid schedule that adds more students each day. All middle and high school students will report for in-person learning by Friday, February 5.
Byler said the decision was based on data collected from the CDC and the state health department. He says that most COVID-19 infections have taken place outside of schools.