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Straight Talk August 7, 2009
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The Kids Finally Get Their Summer Vacation
Pity the poor students who attend school in San Bernardino County, Calif. Those enrolled at Rolling Ridge and Dickson elementary schools just started their summer vacation last week. You’ll love the mind-numbing reason why.

California law requires that students spend 54,000 minutes a year in class. Schools there typically meet five days a week, but have a shortened Friday to allow time for teacher workshops and parent-teacher conferences. But by law, students must be in class for at least 180 minutes even on those shortened days.

An audit of the Rolling Ridge and Dickson elementary schools revealed that, for 34 days of the school year, classes at Dickson Elementary met for an average of just 175 minutes. The school day was even shorter at Rolling Ridge; classes there met for 170 minutes.

You mathematicians out there will quickly calculate that Rolling Ridge students owed the system 340 more minutes, while Dickson students should have met for another 170 minutes. Either way, that’s just two or three more days of school, right?

Wrong. Under state law, those 34 shortened days don’t count at all. Students had to go back to school for seven more weeks or the schools risked losing $7 million in state aid.

Hey, who’s going to pass up $7 million if all it means is stealing half of some children’s vacation? Back to class, kiddos. School officials ordered classes continued through the end of July. Enjoy your three weeks of summer vacation, kids.

If you think the bureaucrats in California can make some stupid rules, wait until you see what the ones in Washington to do our health care. Scary thought, isn’t it?


Posted by HUSTUSA at 8/7/2009 4:53 PM
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