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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And for the schools are for learning and not sports crowd, these are the final years many of these kids get to participate in team sports that teach valuable lessons in hard work, determination, and cooperation.  To rob those children of that opportunity so a few kids can get an extra 2 weeks to prepare for a test is pretty stupid.  If your kids need the extra 2 weeks, maybe you shouldn't have forced them into AP classes they aren't capable of in the first place[/quote]

Geez you're insufferable.  I guess you're satusfied with the usless makeup days tacked on in June, maybe you don't even bother sending your kids, but it's not ideal for a variety of reasons.  Starting the school year slightly earlier to build in more snow days is the most practical solution from a logistics standpoint AND would have the added benefit of more time for AP classes.  It doesn't have to be and would unlikely be two weeks, stop being dramatic.  If your kids can't adjust to starting school slightly earlier maybe you need to teach them more resilliance.  [/quote]

How come we were able to build in sufficient snow days in the past without starting in early August?  Time to go back to whatever we were doing then.  [/quote]

What we’re doing then was unwelcoming to anyone who practiced a non-Abraham’s religious tradition.[/quote]

Allowing excused absences for any and all religious and cultural holidays (in addition to maximum flexibility in excusing assignments related to those absences) is NOT unwelcoming.  There is no justification whatsoever for closing schools on days where [b]absenteeism among staff and students is less than 15%. [/b] We are not a religious institution.  We should not be closing schools in a nod to any religion or culture; we should be making decisions only based on absentee data.  All religions and cultures are equally important; we cannot possibly create a calendar honoring every holiday, so we shouldn't even delve into it.[/quote]

It’s only going to increase, particularly among South Asians who have active parent groups. We should just get used to having those days off and change the school calendar to a few days earlier in August to adjust. Parents regularly state they crave a return to earlier bedtimes by mid-August.[/quote]

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