Yes. In each district I've been involved in, there are 180 instructional days mandated. The school calendar is set; if there are days where, due to the weather, school is cancelled, those days have to be made up, either at the end of the school year, during a day already set aside for break, holiday, or teacher workshop, etc. Snow days are called on a district-by-district basis and are usually done the day of the bad weather, early morning, after a check of road conditions and weather forecasts.

Of course, the "bad" winter of what, 1978? We ended up having so many missed days in Kentucky that not only did we go an extra three weeks or so at the end of the school year, but we also had an hour or so added to each day until the time was made up.

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