Traditional schools will make up two snow days on April 6th and 7, and it's forcing some families, like Barbi Estes', to re-think vacation plans.

"We're trying to decide if we're going to go back to Ohio to visit family," Estes said.

For sixth-grader Richard Marshall, two snow days are stifling spring break.

"It's not really fair for our spring break to be taken away from us," Marshall said.

His mother Adrianne Marshall questioned how days are made up.

"They could have made today up -- been a whole day instead of a half day," Marshall said.

But school officials say they're limited in which days can be used as make up days. Spokesman Michael Evans said it all comes down to the school calendar, set by a committee every two years and approved by the Board of Education.

The calendar takes into account the mandatory 180 days in school and 1,000 hours of instruction, mandatory holidays and work days and of course makeup days for inclement weather, some of which fall during this year's spring break.

Evans also said the "Save Our Summers" law in North Carolina also adds limitations by requiring students to be out of school by June 10 every year.

"We've made the best decision we can, given the parameters we have to work in, and unfortunately the way the storms fell this year it had to cut in to spring break," Evans said.

Making up days on Saturdays can create overtime issues according to Evans, who said the issue will be brought up to the calendar committee, which has never recommended make up days on Saturdays before.

"We will tee up the conversation with the committee going forward, ‘Is Saturday something we even want to entertain?'" Evans said.

And while students might be disappointed, Jennifer Lanane, the president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, is hearing from teachers too.

"I've heard from some teachers that have, you know, tickets that are non-refundable to fly somewhere," Lanane said.

But some teachers, she said, might just get a break.

"I haven't heard of any principal that said I won't work with you," Lanane said.