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From a reader:
We need to expose all these school systems for their lack of fulfilling their state attendance requirements. 180 days is the mandatory (or equivalent hours). How many days did they miss this school year because the weatherman and the local yokels thought we may have severe winds?
Those superintendents were dismissing schools as early as 11 am the day before the predicted weather front and most times nothing happened - Snow, Rain, Tornados, every prediction under the sun gave them an excuse not to have school - or to delay school.
The legislators need to be riled that taxpayers are sending money to the schools for AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE. There should be make up days (Muscle Shoals has 1 on their calendar - but did not go to school on that day to make at least one of theirs up.
My solution is - if you delay the start of school, you delay the end of school. If you miss days because of bad weather, you make them up on Saturdays (like in the "old" days) or you give up days that you would have been out for long weekends, holidays, or heaven forbid - spring break.
They are paid by the taxpayers to be in school 180 days, period. There is a reason Alabama is on the bottom in national testing - the superintendents and boards.
Legislators need to enforce their own laws - 180 days is 180 days.
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