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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are mad about this year.  I get it.  But next year’s calendar and the year after is fine.

Meren voted for these calendars and supported them.  Very odd that she chooses NOW to say she is ready to act? What is going on with her? [/quote]

Because you can only make policy changes while people are mad. You think they’ll end early release in a year when everyone [i]isn’t[/i] mad?[/quote]

Government is supposed to move slow on things like this.  You are reacting to snow days and unable to pull out of the emotional reaction to see that it isn’t really the calendar, it is the snow days that is making this year so hard.[/quote]
The calendar is absolutely the problem. There was an extra week scheduled for this school year which is why there are more disjointed weeks than usual. Compare it to other recent calendars. Labor Day was early this year, so we started earlier in August, yet we end the same time in June. Many holidays fell mid week this year. The snow days compounded the issue but the 2025-26 calendar is abnormally bad.

Fortunately, it’s an outlier and the next two school years have decent calendars. They should be using this backlash to shape the calendars for 2028 and beyond. [/quote]

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