Going virtual doesn’t mean the end to two-hour delays and snow days.

The National Weather Service out of State College issued a winter weather advisory for Warren County through 7 a.m. today.

The NWS was calling for 3 to 8 inches of snow – with most of that expected to have fallen by Wednesday night.

While students working from home may not care much what the weather is like at the beginning of the school day, there are still some students in the schools.

“The Warren County School District is still transporting a portion of the special education students, career center students, and students without access to the internet to their respective schools,” Transportation Manager Mike Kiehl said. “While transportation is provided, the school district will be following the same processes for determining two-hour delays and cancellations.”

That means Kiehl is out on the roads early — 3:30 a.m. — checking on conditions. Then, he calls PennDOT and the district’s bus contractors.

“The main reason we’d follow a two-hour delay schedule is due to the fact that we do have students coming into the building and it would be difficult for some of our teachers to be running on two different schedules — normal schedule and a two-hour delay schedule,” Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Eric Mineweaser said. “The periods would not line up correctly if we began teaching virtually at 7:55 a.m. to all students and then there are some students getting on the vans/buses later in the morning to arrive to school on a two-hour delay schedule.”

“Therefore, virtual courses would begin at 10 a.m. similar to those who would be in the school setting,” Mineweaser said.

If the decision is made to delay or cancel school, the district spreads the word through call blasts, media outlets, the district’s website, and social media.