Wednesday will be the sixth snow day in the Fayette County School System this academic year and the number of missed days is much higher in many other counties across Kentucky. Despite the harsh winter, Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday says he wants students in class the required 177 days.

Holliday told ABC 36 News Tuesday that he opposes granting school districts so called calamity days, even though he says the state must be "reasonable" when it comes to possible disaster days in systems that have dealt with other situations, such as swine flu. He says that would be on a case by case basis.

The education chief says he will push for school systems to use "every available moment" to make up the missed days.

"I do not want to cheat any child out of instruction time," said Holliday. "I think we need to look at every available option. I think we need to look at spring breaks. I think we need to look at professional development days. I think our superintendents are looking at every option. What we have to do is address the testing window because I think our teachers deserve every moment they can get with the kids to get the kids ready for the assessments because so many things are decided based on those one shot, one day tests."

Testing is scheduled for early April, but education officials plan to meet this week to devise a plan to delay the testing. Holliday says some students have only been in class about a week since the Christmas break.