Make-up days for Roanoke County Schools

    Roanoke County elementary students currently go 5,400 minutes a year more than is required by Virginia's General Assembly (59,400 minutes is required). Middle and High school students attend school an additional 11,700+ minutes (for a total of more than 17,000 minutes). Including four scheduled early dismissal days and four days missed during the exams period, Roanoke County elementary students attend school for 16,560 minutes. The difference between Roanoke County requirements and the General Assembly requirements equals a little more than 50 additional days over the course of the school year. If school is cancelled due to inclement weather, students will NEVER miss as many as 50 days. Consequently, why are students ever required to make up even a single minute of missed time?
    The added 10 minutes will not reap any significant educational benefit. However, there are negative consequences, which include the following:
    1. The additional 10 minutes will be added onto the final class each day only, which means the other three classes will have less instructional time. How are teachers supposed to address this inequity? If a teacher has no class at the end of the day, no one will benefit from the additional time.
    2. When sports teams are released early for an away contest, the students will miss more instructional time than they already do.
    3. Students and teachers already need to make appointments later in the day than many doctors, dentists, orthodontists, etc. are willing to schedule. This makes it more difficult to attend school for even a half day (for teachers) and will result in more missed time for students.
    The bottom line is this: with Roanoke County students already attending school at least 5,400 minutes more than is required, why do they ever have to make up single minute of missed time?
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