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[quote=Anonymous]I am a believer that students benefit most from having a continuous, three-month long, uninterrupted block of school days from mid-August through late-November before the Thanksgiving holidays, Christmas/Winter Break, and numerous weather delays and snow days start to break up the continuity of their academic year, and possibly affect overall teaching and learning.  And honestly pushing those missed days into late June is unhelpful, as I think the students start to mentally check out on June 1st, when those glorious summer days distract from learning.

Since this year's very late Labor Day will push the first day of classes into the (in my opinion) inexcusably late second week of September, will any of the area private schools put their students first and consider changing to a mid-or-late August start instead?  That will certainly make all of next winter's snow days and delayed starts (and there will be many) more palatable.  I would like to see the schools put their students first, and by announcing it now in April, it will give staff and families time to plan accordingly.[/quote]

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