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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For anyone who couldn’t watch:

1. A motion is going to the board for Veterans Day and Indigenous People’s day 2026 to be school days.
2. Strong advocacy for early release to 1. Be moved to Friday and 2. Not be scheduled to occur on any week with a different holiday/second early release.

Some discussions around changing number of snowdays to get a week back and what to do about elections.[/quote]
This is pretty reasonable. They’ll get pushback on Friday early releases because absences will be too high. Also, if they remove 5 snow days, they should have a contingency for canceling early releases, to preserve hours for emergency closures. [/quote]

I think that’s my main sticking point with the calendar this year. We have missed so much time that we need to dump the early releases going forward. But they just won’t do it. Other districts extend the calendar or cut into spring break if there are too many weather days … we don’t even need to do that. We could get time back by just cancelling the early releases for the rest of this school year. [/quote]

What early releases? I hope this isn't just about ES.  The Calendar this year was a disaster for everyone!!!! [/quote]

Veterans Day and Indigenous People’s day seem to be about getting five day weeks for everyone not just ES.

The justification for moving ES early release to Friday was that Wednesday was disruptive to class flow and teachers reported to the board it was a problem.[/quote]

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