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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Right now, we are relying on religious holidays to fall on the weekend so that the calendar doesn’t have a ton of 3 and 4 day weeks, it is crazy.

The vast majority of the country does not give off federal holidays, kids should be in school for Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, President’s Day and MLK day. Right there you have 4 saved days, easy. Or use those days as Teacher Work Days and give back the Teacher Work Days. Most of the country works on Federal Holidays, this is not unusual.

The middle of the week work days are not going any where. The county realized that giving anything as a long weekend leads to parents planning full week cruises or vacations and they are trying to deal with the increase in missed school days. That is even more important to them now that attendance is a part of accreditation.  Putting the work day on a Wednesday makes it harder to justify taking that extended long weekend then putting it in a Monday or a Friday. [/quote]

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