Feb. 16 not a school holiday this year

Feb. 16 will not be a holiday for DeSoto County School
students, teachers and staff. Instead it will be a make-up day.

While it was originally scheduled for a holiday in the school
calendar, it is the first makeup day for the school year.

"When school is called off for a day such as icy conditions
yesterday, we have to make it up," said Milton Kuykendall,
superintendent of DeSoto County Schools. "We have to meet the state
requirement of 180 school days for students. I know it is a lot more
popular to call a day off than cancel a holiday, but understand if I
cancel a school day we will have to cancel a holiday. It is the law."