Upon application from the Board of Trustees, the Superintendent may close any school because of an epidemic prevailing in the school district or because of the death, resignation, sickness or dismissal of a teacher or teachers or because of any other emergency necessitating the closing of the school.  However, the school so closed shall operate for the required full time after being reopened during the scholastic year.  § 37‑13‑65 

It is understood that the superintendent will take such action only after consultation with appropriate authorities, such as transportation, emergency management, and weather agencies.  Parents, students and staff members shall be informed early in each school year how they shall be notified in the event of emergency closings or early dismissals.

DISASTER EMERGENCY

If this Board of Trustees determines that it is not economically feasible or practicable to operate any school within the district for the full one hundred eighty (180) days required for a scholastic year as contemplated due to an enemy attack, a manmade, technological or natural disaster in which the Governor has declared a disaster emergency or the U.S. President has declared an emergency or major disaster to exist in this state, the Board of Trustees may notify the State Department of Education of such disaster and submit a plan for altering the school term.

If the State Board of Education finds such disaster to be the cause of the school not operating for the contemplated school term and that such school was in a school district covered by the Governor’s or President’s disaster declaration, it may permit said Board of Trustees to operate the schools in its district for less than one hundred eighty (180) days.  § 37-13-63 

EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS

Our area is noted for severe unpredictable weather conditions.  If a severe weather warning, such as a tornado warning is issued by the United States Weather Bureau, local civil defense officials notify the superintendent of schools and each principal.  Children will be retained in tornado drill until it is deemed safe to dismiss them, unless they are picked up by their parents.  Pupils will not be allowed to use the telephone during severe weather warnings except in cases of emergency.  Parents and their children should have an arrangement worked out in advance with regard to transportation during extreme weather conditions.

Each school in the district presently has, or will have installed before July 1, 1997, a weather radio.  § 37-11-6