Does a School Field Trip Count as Instructional Time in Hawaii?

We never really thought about the importance of time to learn until it was taken away with student furloughs. Hawaii has spent the last two years discussing student instructional time. How many minutes should it be? Who has the authority to decide? What is considered instructional time?

While we were discussing it and setting our own policy, States around the country have also been setting policy, to make sure that their children’s educational time is not being cut during times of budget shortfalls. We will always be recovering from or anticipating a crisis: Tsunami, War, rising fuel costs, unrest in the Mid-East, stocks falling, Social Security/Pension shortfalls, political dissension. We cannot wait for perfect conditions to try to increase our children’s instructional time, that day may never come.

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