Oshe'igan School Schedule

The 160 Day Rule
Schools must have school on at least 160 days of the year to qualify as a full "school year", but most schools put in extra days in their calendar. If a school day is cancelled due to inclement weather or some other issue that renders school unavailable, it does not get replaced as long as the school still has at least 160 days in the schedule disregarding that day and all previous cancelled days. Although extremely uncommon, if the school year dips below 160 days due to cancelled days, schools will usually extend their year into winter break to comply with the rule.

Public Holidays
Schools may not open during public holidays.

Breaks
The two main breaks during the school year occur in late April and early May ("spring break"), and late December and early January ("winter break"). These breaks coincide with the clumping of public holidays - Election Week & Osheigan Formation Day in May, and Christmas & New Year's in December/January being the main holidays.

Unlike many other school systems, there is no "summer break" or any extremely long break during the year. Winter break serves the purpose of summer break, since school years always start on the first school day after winter break (mid January) and end on the last school day before winter break (mid December).

Weekends & Midweeks
School may not operate on weekends (Saturday & Sunday) and midweeks (Wednesdays). Oshe'iga is unique in that school is not operated on Wednesday. This was a compromise to compensate for the loss of a large break. Wednesday was chosen as the additional break day over Monday or Friday since going to school for 4 days straight could be considered exhausting by the end of the school week, while a break in the middle would split this up so the streak of school days aren't so long.

Timings
All days start at around 10 a.m. and end around 4 p.m., although individual districts may set their own starting and ending times that vary from these by up to an hour. There is no concept of "half days" or anything similar; usually the schedule is set in stone.