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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
I looked at the Guide to Education for 1992. Minimum hours of instruction for grades 1-9 was 950 and 10-12 was 1000. Minimum hours for 2023 are the same. As long as I’ve been teaching, operational days max at 200 and instructional days float around 190ish. It seems like kids have less school these days but nothing has changed in the legislated hours/days.
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I find this perplexing. I know we didn’t have a fall break and we definitely didn’t have almost every week being a four day week. We also didn’t get as much time during exams (which for high school is a huge difference), let alone these make up days and things like that. Did we just exceed the minimum number of hours back then and now we’re at the minimum? I can’t see how they’re making up the difference.