Yes. In each district I've been involved in, there are 180 instructional days mandated. The school calendar is set; if there are days where, due to the weather, school is cancelled, those days have to be made up, either at the end of the school year, during a day already set aside for break, holiday, or teacher workshop, etc. Snow days are called on a district-by-district basis and are usually done the day of the bad weather, early morning, after a check of road conditions and weather forecasts.

Of course, the "bad" winter of what, 1978? We ended up having so many missed days in Kentucky that not only did we go an extra three weeks or so at the end of the school year, but we also had an hour or so added to each day until the time was made up.

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In my area the first day of class is right after Labor Day and goes into mid to late June. Not sure if they still do, but for awhile they had a couple snow days built into the schedule so if they got used because of snow, great. If it didn't snow, they'd have a couple extra days off. Something like that anyway.

My daughters school starts at 7:45AM and gets out at 2:10pm.

They get 2 days in Nov for Thanksgiving.
A couple weeks for Christmas in Dec/Jan.
Mid Winter break in Feb
Spring break in April (Next week)
In service days here and there

Elementary school here is K-5
Middle School is 6-8
High School 9-12
(Back in my day, there wasn't a middle school, it was junior high... and was grades 7-9 /grumpy old man)

I think most children are 5, sometimes 6.

We have Kindergarten and Preschool, but preschool here is something you have to enroll your child in... like a private school almost.

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