School districts in Missouri currently must provide 1,044 hours of instruction, or approximately 166 days, per school year. Some districts build in snow days to their calendar, while others opt to use up to 36 virtual learning hours instead. The state caps the number of weather makeup days at 10, forgiving any above that cap.

Missouri students has been derailed by the storm’s icy aftermath, eating up a handful of districts’ allotted snow days for the remainder of the year, or reverting to AMI learning. “Our safety is the most important thing that we can have for our students,