We barely made it through this year without having to add days at the end of the year. We missed two days for the snipers and then a bunch of snow days.
What gets me is the years when we don't have snow days, and they have to give the kids the time off that they've built into the schedule. A few years back we missed no days for snow, so they gave them a five-day weekend for Memorial Day. Then they were supposed to come back for an additional two weeks and end "on time."
It was a stupid move. NOBODY accomplished anything after that break. The kids were already in summer mode.
Of course my county is also the county that scheduled Martin Luther King, Jr. day as a make-up day. Then, when they started getting heat, the School Board actually said (and I am not making this up) "Well, if it's an important day to you, you will not be counted as absent."
Over 40% of the kids didn't show that day.
It will not surprise you that this doesn't surprise me will it?
They've done the same thing with MLK day here. I've not heard anybody complain yet. But, we've been in the backward parts of Texas you know.