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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How should the teachers union address the state-mandated Good Friday and Easter Monday issue?[/quote]

Ask the BOE to request a waiver to include Good Friday and Easter Monday as optional snow days so that the regularly scheduled days June 12-14 can be used as full days and not snow days.  This reduces the risk that kids will get less than 180 days of school in the event of snow days and still keeps to the mandated opening and closing dates.

Other schools have asked to use President's Day as an optional snow day and have been given waivers to that effect.  [/quote]

That's not what I consider to be the state-mandated Good Friday and Easter Monday issue. [/quote]

One of the reasons that this nation is getting so divided is that so many make everything black and white.  Both sides make stands that something must be changed completely immediately.  Over the last 20 years, the nation has slowly decimated the moderates of both parties who used to make compromises and get actual work done.  Instead, people are taking strong stands and digging in their heels that change must happen.  Here's the real problem; change happens slowly.  Progress happens slowly.  And you need to make changes slow enough that those who are opposed to said changes don't just have to "live with it" but can adapt to the changes.

In this case, start by making the Easter holidays snow days.  It eliminates the requirements to have a guaranteed holiday.  But in the event that there are snow days, they become the first days that go back in as replacement school days and kids go to school.  Families who resist the change will get used to sometimes losing their long Easter weekend and will start to plan accordingly.  They know that they may have to cancel or adjust plans.  After they become accustomed to not having a guaranteed long Easter weekend, and after the kids have to be in school a couple of times on Easter weekend, then it becomes easier to eliminate it as a state-mandated holiday and you'll get a lot less push-back on such a change.[/quote]

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