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Some California students may have extra month of school due to error
2009-06-16 20:43:42 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Education News News)
Denver, Colorado (CaymanMama.com) — Unfortunately for some Southern California elementary school students, summer will be much shorter than what they are used to in the past.
Students at Dickson Elementary in Chino and Rolling Ridge Elementary in Chino Hills should have completed the school year on Thursday, but due to a clerical error the kids will have to make up over a month of school — 34 days to be exact — or the schools stand to lose $7 million in state funds.
According to the Associated Press, “Under California law, schools’ occasional short days — taken to allow teachers time for preparation — must be at least 180 minutes. An internal audit in May found 34 days at the two schools that were only 170 or 175 minutes.”
The missing day could be made up in only a day or two of regular school but a state law loophole says the short days don’t count at all, meaning every one of the 34 days must be made up to avoid the penalty in state funds.
Hilary McLean of the state Department of Higher Education said legislators purposefully stiffened penalties discourage districts from “shaving off minutes here and there.”
One of the school district’s associate superintendents assumed responsibility for the errors, and will be retiring this year.
The impromptu summer session will offer extra arts, music and science classes and will also give the kids a jump start on next year’s curriculum, school officials said.
Still, the kids are none too please.
Fourth-grader Sean Cornish he “think[s] it’s dumb that they have to go to school for these extra days because some lady messed up.”
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