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Clerical Error May Add 34 Days to School Year
Dreading summer break? Quick, pack up the kids and move to Chino Hills, Calif.
A clerical error may send students to Rolling Ridge Elementary in Chino Hills and Dickson Elementary in Chino for an extra thirty-four days this year. That choir of angels? Really their parents singing “hallelujah.” We think that would drown out the groans from the kids, don’t you?
It turns out the California school district thought kids were attending the state-required one hundred eighty days this year, but a series of “short days” worked into the school calendar were not long enough to count. Thirty-four days, to be exact, fell short, some by as little as five minutes.
The strict state law was enacted to keep districts from shaving a few minutes here and there off the school day. Shortened days are OK’d for teacher prep work – but they must be at least one hundred eighty minutes long or the state won’t kick in its aid for the day.
Because of the days when kids attended for just one hundred seventy to one hundred seventy-five minutes, the schools may be out $7 million. And it isn’t as easy as just adding up all the missing minutes and sending the kids to school for that many (a total of a day or two). They will likely have to make up ALL thirty-four days.
The associate superintendent responsible for the screw-up is retiring this year. How convenient!
I know I’m supposed to feel bad for the kids here, but can you imagine thirty-four days of not finding daycare? Thirty-four extra days of not having them under your feet?
Ahh, blissful.
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GP commented on Jun 17 09 at 1:18 pmI actually *like* my kid, so, no, I don’t think I’d be so elated. I’d probably be annoyed because of the potential kink in vacation plans.
PlumbLucky commented on Jun 17 09 at 1:29 pmOkay, but not having to pay for 34 days of childcare might be okay (not that I don’t like my kid, but I do like having healthcare therefore I work). But I know some summer camps in my neck of the planet are prepaid, no refunds…in which case I’d be flaming PO’ed. Ditto the kink in vacation plans. 34 days puts us into…July?
elohveeee1012 commented on Jun 17 09 at 9:35 pmthats ridiculous, if the difference is just a few minutes then why wouldnt they just let them take a few days extra. rather then more than a month, especially since that is going to cost the state extra to run the buses, buy the food, get more supplies for the kids to use, not to mention pay all those workers to do this. I would give them a week and call it even.
LogicalMama commented on Jun 18 09 at 12:35 amSchool districts all around California are talking about shortening the school year in light of the Budget problem here so I doubt this will come to fruition. It costs the state too much money to add 34 days to the school year when they are making cuts across the board!
Manjari commented on Jun 18 09 at 7:40 amI would feel really bad for those kids if that happened!
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