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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]At the moment, we will not be going to school for the two Snow Days in June because we have enough instructional minutes to cover school being closed these past two days. [/b]However, if there are more days when school is closed, we will need to use the Snow Days or adjust the calendar.[/quote]

Can you explain how that works? The law says 180 days of school.

How does the math work? [/quote]

The waiver process is extremely loose and basically allows OSSE to waive the requirement any time a school says it has "exigent circumstances." You would think exigent circumstances would be defined to described totally unforeseen issues, but it doesn't. So I guess exigent circumstances could include "we built two snow days into the calendar in the case of snow, and then we had snow, but we just don't feel like extending the school year by two days, so we won't." If that meets the test than virtually anything would. "The kids seem restive, we don't want to deal with them anymore." "We are tired." "I don't know, how important is school really? Seems superfluous."

It's even worse than that, believe it or not. OSSE says schools can have a four day school week so long as the kids are in the building doing anything at all for at least six hours on those four days.[/quote]

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