Children of Michigan, enjoy these many snow and cold days as best you can because you'll pay for them in a couple months. The unusually large number of school days lost to winter weather could be offset by shorter summer vacations.
Detroit News: That’s because under state law, districts must provide a minimum 1,098 hours of instruction to K-12 students. Some districts provide only the minimum, while others go above it by a few days.
And although every district is given six snow days to use, some districts already have reached or exceeded the limit, and others are likely to do so this week, in the face of wind chills as low as minus 25 degrees this morning and Wednesday morning. At least according to the calendar, there are still nearly eight more weeks of winter.
Local parents are no doubt quietly cheering the news that the inconvenience of snow days--the time off from work, the hastily arranged child care, the cabin fever--may be repaid when their kids are forced to spend a few extra pleasant June afternoons watching out-dated film strips and memorizing multiplication tables.
"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York" and all of that.
