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And yet 180 days is the most common requirement, as posted elsewhere. "The most common way that states regulate instructional time is to set a minimum number of days for the school year; 38 states and the District of Columbia do so. [b]The majority of those states (27 of 38), along with D.C., mandate 180 instructional days, making it the closest thing the country has to a national norm.[/b]"

And 180 is already too few for MCPS, which is failing its students.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/07/in-the-u-s-180-days-of-school-is-most-common-but-length-of-school-day-varies-by-state/[/quote]

Some of the states {those with a 2 subscript by the 180 (185 in NC, 186 in Kansas)} allow a specified number of hours to count as an alternative. 
2 District option to meet either minimum hours per school year or days per school year.

NOT LISTED on the site is that
Some of these states that require 180 days scheduled automatically forgive calamity days.
California requires 180 days but nobody has to make up days for fires, earthquakes or in some parts snow.
Michigan requires 180 days but the first 6 bad weather days are freebies and schools can get a waiver for 3 more.[/quote]

OK? I guess you're free to continue your crusade against public education. It's pretty weird, though.[/quote] How is that a crusade? I'm simply saying what other states require. Other than similar law states like NJ, CT, MA, maybe Michigan since they get a zillion snow days and schools have to make up over a week even with 9 days forgiven (6 freebies + 3 waivers) there is nothing to complain about in most laws. Having only 2 vacation weeks a school year is hard enough, losing two weeks of summer between how holidays fell and snow day makeups is terrible![/quote]

You are responding to dummies. Quality of education matters way more than quantity. A couple of days here and there are meaningless in the long run. We are focusing on the wrong thing. Instead parents should be pushing MCPS to improve the quality of curriculum and do a better job supporting teachers. And have a stricter cell phone policy. Instead we have parents who can’t handle not being able to contact their kids when they’re at school so loose cell phone policy, way too much Ed tech in schools and lots of teeth nashing about a few missed days. MCPS parents are the worst. [/quote]

If we can't do the simple things, like actually having school days, then the other things won't matter.[/quote]

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