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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But the highest positive response was for ONE week before labor day and none of the next three years has that.

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We’re also not seeing what they voted for for the end of the year, which impacts the start of the year. In recent surveys most families wanted a later start and an earlier end, which is not exactly feasible.[/quote]

Sure it is.  We’ve explained how so many times.  An easy way to cut days off the end is to [b]get rid of all of the teacher workdays and PD days.[/b]   Have school on Veteran’s Day, with an assembly, once again and have school the day before Thanksgiving.  That’s at least a week if not more right there. -teacher [/quote]

Wouldn’t that reduce the contract length and thus also salary? [/quote]

No cause they would be school days. [/quote]

It would still shorten the teacher contract unless you are adding 8 school student days or moving the PD days to before or after the school year starts/ends. [/quote]

How would it shorten teacher contract? The 195 days includes TWD. If you make  a PD a student day they are still working. [/quote]

Because if you change TWDs to student days to shorten the SY it’s going to shorten the total contract days unless you add TWDs somewhere else.

195 contract days
Let’s say 8 of those are TWD during the school year. If you change those to student days to shorten the SY by 8 days that reduces the contract days by 8. [/quote]

No it doesn’t because teachers are still working on the student days. They will still be working 195 days, regardless if it’s a student day or a TWD.[/quote]

No. Think about it.

Teachers typically have about 5 before the SY starts and 2 after it ends. If you swap the other TWDs during the SY for student days then students would have to attend 188 days to maintain 195 contract days.

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Sorry, you aren’t making sense. The contract is for teachers. Not the students. As long as the teachers work 195 days it doesn’t matter. [/quote]

Ok, but those TWDs will have to be moved to before or after the SY. [/quote]

This isn’t that hard. There are 195 Teacher Days and 180 student days. Currently, Columbus Day is a TWD. So whether students are there or not, [b]it won’t affect the number days a teacher works[/b]. We should eliminate some of the extra work days. We don’t need all of them. [/quote]

Yes. It shouldn’t be that hard. That’s what I am saying to you.

Currently Columbus Day is a TWD. It’s a TWD in addition to the student school days. If you make Columbus Day a student day you have removed the TWD. You are minus one day.

I’m fine with eliminating some of the extra workdays, but keep in mind simply eliminating them and making them student days to end the SY earlier results in fewer teacher days.

Do this for me. Start with 180 student days and then show where the additional 15 teacher days will fall without adding the TWDs in somewhere else. [/quote]

If Columbus Day turned into a student day, the school year will end a day earlier. Kids will have 180 days and teachers will still have 195. [/quote]

The teachers are working either way that day. So ending the school year a day earlier then leaves 194 days.[/quote]

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