re: For Those With Kids

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If you don't make them make those days up, schools could close at the merest hint of snow if they wanted to as a cost saving measure. What would stop a school from knocking 20 days off the school year then taking the extra money and funneling it into raises for administration or teachers?

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I see your point, but I think a better check on that potential abuse, in a perfect world, is the firing of admins who try to take advantage of the system.

It's all about reasonableness, but unfortunately our society is full of grown children trying to run things so we need strict guidlines to follow or else they will abuse the system either intentionally or by their negligence/lack of intelligence. If society was still filled with responsible, reasonable adults, then we could just trust that reasonable, responsible decisions would be made without having to stand over their shoulder and count the minutes of each school day.