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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll take the bait...

Please explain how student's are losing instructional time with a previously planned early dismissal.

This should be good...[/quote]
There are 180 days scheduled in the calendar. When unexpected closures occur, they default to meeting 990 instructional hours. This is where all the snow days come from. Dr Reid decided to reallocate some elementary school snow hours to create early release Wednesdays. Now elementary schools have less instructional time scheduled in the calendar than MS and HS by default. So you are correct in that they aren’t losing any time. They will still meet 990 requirements. All these closures were budgeted in the calendar than

What I think is the bigger source of frustration is that all the scheduled days off and early releases coupled with snow closures and delays has led to a chaotic February. Children thrive on routine and the calendar seems to actively work against that. [/quote]

Well said! On top of a how many days off in November, winter break and snow days plus so many random days off, early release days being increased from last year and a crappy school year calendar to begin with.  Not teachers’ fault but the bureaucrats need to do better.[/quote]

Ahh yes, the federal holiday of veterans day, one day of elections using the school buildings, and Thanksgiving. We might as well not make the student's go to school at all in November. [/quote]

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