[Rocketfan]

Students at Dickson Elementary in Chino and Rolling Ridge Elementary in Chino Hills were supposed to be done with school on Thursday, but a clerical error means they will have to make up 34 days or the schools will risk losing $7 million in state funds.

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.

That missing time could be made up in just one or two school days but a further quirk of state law says the short days don't count at all. That means every one of the 34 days must be made up to avoid the penalty in state funds.

Fourth-grader Sean Cornish says his classmates "think it's dumb that they have to go to school for these extra days because some lady messed up."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/ap_ ... _s_not_out

[flamesbball84]

they had 34 shortened days? what in the world? i only got one a month in elementary school. only times i got them in middle or high school was during exam week or occasionally before christmas break, i think

[TylerBakersGonnaBGreat]

they had 34 shortened days? what in the world? i only got one a month in elementary school. only times i got them in middle or high school was during exam week or occasionally before christmas break, i think

In Florida we had them Every Wed. Elementary all the way through high school.

[flamesbball84]

im convinced even further america is turning into a bunch of pansies.

[01LUGrad]

This is what we call a NIGHTMARE!!!!

I'm on my 2nd of 55 vacation days right now and if they had told me last week that I had to do another 7 with those...ummm...wonderful kids, the only question regarding how long I would stay would depend on how close the nearest exit was.