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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they take away snow days, they darn well better end the school year earlier. The 180 day (or whatever the hour calculation), factors in the assumption that school will be closed at some point in many years. Reduce the year down to 175 days.[/quote]

That’s not how it works in MD. School is scheduled for more than 180 days so that you have some padding for emergency closure. When we have a harsh winter, you might burn through all of your extra days and need to get the permission of the state to hold school less than 180 days. Sometimes the state says no and extra days are added. [/quote]

In VA we can use hours or days to measure the school year.  Many school systems would add minutes to the school day rather than end the year later.  In MD, they only count days (or at least that was the case when I taught there 15 years ago).  The use of hours also allows school systems to add 10 mintues to each school day and have more padding for “emergency” days.[/quote]

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