Give students their school days, The state has no excuse for failing to deliver enough instructional time

WEST Virginia's terrain is challenging. Add a skim of ice to theroads and busloads of schoolchildren are off to skating rinks - nota good idea.

But cancel school, and officials trade bitterly cold days inJanuary for sweltering days in the classroom in June or write offsome instructional time altogether.

Kanawha County school officials should be praised for trying tokeep the focus where it should be - on actually delivering the 180days of instruction required by state law. It isn't easy.

The Kanawha school system canceled school on Wednesday andThursday. To make that up, educators tacked June 6 and June 9 ontothe school calendar.

So far, the system has …