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[quote=Anonymous]Here’s the link: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/23/1057979170/school-closures-mental-health-days-families-childcare-thanksgiving-break

A district in our area (not DC) closed the entire week of thanksgiving with maaaaaaaybe a weeks notice and a teacher friend of mine was publicly pushing hard core for her district to do the same, short notice and pressure on parents be damned. Our district is already closed all week so I don’t have a dog in the fight.

I totally am sympathetic that teachers are burnt out. But that being said, almost every other working parent could say the same. And kids are already behind and every day in school counts.

I’m not a teacher or healthcare, but an essential industry where inflation and supply chain issues are killing us. This is beyond the hardest time in my career in 2 decades. I get it. But somehow parents in similar situations are the worst because they can’t handle last minute school closures?

A FB comment from a teacher to this article was basically like “sorry you might not get paid to miss work because of this and might not be able to pay bills but I don’t care” [/quote]

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