Day of personal leave or ???

How was Wednesday, May 1, 2019 counted by Richland 2 School District?

Many teachers must have requested personal leave, so they could attend the rally organized by SCforED. So many, in fact, that Richland 2, at the last minute, decided to close all the schools.

If a teacher requested a day of personal leave and got it, was she or he paid for that day? Is it in a teacher's contract to get a certain number of paid personal-leave days off?

Initially, District 2 said it would not close. So it was going to pay the teachers for their day off AND pay for substitutes and those who didn't take the day off.

But then District 2 decided to close, and everybody got a day off.

Were those approved days of personal leave still charged to the teachers who had requested them? Charged against their total personal-leave days off, I mean.

Or will District 2 forget about (cancel, rescind, void) those approved days off?

What was the cost to District 2 for that closed day? Guesses, anyone?

How much administrative time was wasted, scurrying around to find replacements and schedule substitutes and one-day transfers of other employees to cover for those teachers?

How many hourly workers (cafeteria, janitorial, transportation) did NOT get paid for that day off?