ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 2, 1996 TAG: 9601020191
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LISA K. GARCIA
How many Virginia Tech fans does it take to close school?
No one knows, but a deluge of requests from Montgomery County School teachers and administrators to take Tuesday off led to the decision to extend the holiday break a day.
Robert Goncz, a school board member whose last day on the board was Monday, said the superintendent of schools requested the change at the last meeting.
Goncz said Superintendent Herman Bartlett said things were getting to the point where, if they had school, he would have to deny some of the requests for the day off.
Or they could just change the calendar.
Bartlett also wondered how many students would show up for school that day, too, Goncz said.
So change the calendar they did. The board voted to swap a teacher work day in March - when classes normally would have been canceled - for the day off Tuesday.
Was it related to the Sugar Bowl? Well, Goncz said, he did not know how many of the requests were from people traveling to New Orleans, but the jokes were rampant about how this may be the only chance Tech fans would have to attend a bowl game for a few years.
Bartlett, a Tech alumnus, could not be reached for comment.
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