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You want to get rid of 4 days of school-- how does that not get rid of instructional time?[/quote]

Instructional time doesn't occur on 100% of "instructional days" maybe 95-97% of them. NOBODY wants makeup days during weeks where no school is planned. Bad weather and other things ex water main break happen. Built in time for that is good without lowering student or teacher moral. As long as the hours are still sufficient why not? Maryland requires 1080 hours which is 90 more than Virginia and some other states.[/quote]

There isn't going to be enough instructional time if you cut 4 days. The remaining days and hours are going to be magically 100% utilized either. Some classes already don't get through everything.[/quote]

You're kidding, right?  The amount of time already wasted during any given school day could easily fill any gap created by 4 (!) days of no school.  "Learning lab" time, silent work time... there's a lot of slush that could be rerouted. I'd advocate that childcare be made available for families for whom that would be a hardship, but I seriously doubt we'd see any real learning loss with 4 missing days.[/quote]

For someone so worried about your kid missing a single day of class, you're sure happy to take 4 days away from 160,000 other kids. Weird.

You should probably go back to homeschooling.[/quote]

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