Increase instruction days for Ohio's schools without lengthening the school year

Increase instruction days for Ohio's schools without lengthening the school year

Here's how:

1. Cancel spring break.
2. Cancel training time for teachers during the school week which usually reduces instruction time by 2 hours on those days.. They could do their training:

• during the summer.
• before the school day begins.
• after the school day is over.
• on a Saturday.

3. Only take 3 Holidays during the school year. This means days, no 4 day weekends.

• December 25th, IF it is during the week. Don't take Thursday and Friday off if the 25th is on Saturday or Sunday. This also means that you go back to work / school after the 25th. No more week breaks between the 25th and the 1st of January. Yes, go to school on the 1st of January.
  
• Thanksgiving is on a Thursday. Take Thursday off and get back to work on Friday.
• Good Friday, take it off, but as stated above, no "spring break". They'll soon have a summer vacation.

This would add 2.5 - 3 weeks of instruction time without lengthening the school year. One of Strickland's objectives was to go to 200 days of instruction. He could have proposed the above plan, but I suspect that his union thug supporters would not like it.