Bartholomew Consolidated families could see a shorter Thanksgiving break next year, but a later start to school and a guaranteed day off for Good Friday.

The school board was presented last night with the results of a recent survey of the community on the school calendar and recommended changes for the next three years, based on those survey results.

Teresa Heiny, assistant superintendent for human resources, says that the community recommendations were incorporated in the calendar proposed by a review committee. Major changes would include reducing the current five-day break around Thanksgiving to three days .

Spring break would also change slightly, with snow days coming off of the front of the two-week spring break instead of the end.

One of the  more popular survey questions was overwhelming support for keeping Good Friday as a school holiday and not using it as a snow makeup day.

More than 3,000 parents took part in a survey on the school calendar and about 4,800 people in all, Heiny says.

The school district is mandated to have 180 instructional days during the year, Heiny said. In the event of snow days, those can be made up by taking time off from spring break, or instituting e-learning days, where students connect by the Internet.

The proposed changes would be up for a vote at the Oct. 23rd school board meeting.  Heiny said that should the Legislature make any changes to the school calendar, such as mandating a start-date, the district would revise the calendar accordingly.