On the bright side, Cloquet students got two extra days for Thanksgiving break due to the weather. On the not-so-bright side, all future snow days will likely have to be made up because the district has only two extra days built into the schedule.

Cloquet superintendent Michael Cary doubted that schools will get another reprieve from the state legislature like they did last year, when legislators declared that districts didn’t have to meet the minimum number of days after nearly all the schools in the state were canceled for at least three days due to extreme cold.

“But we still have a...