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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School needs to start mid Aug.  That would give enough time for 1 week for thanksgiving, 2 weeks for winter, 1 week for spring break as well as religious observances.

Summer break is 10-11 weeks.  It's too long.  We need to steal some time from summer and reallocate it to the other break weeks.[/quote]

You'd just be recreating the same problem. People would push back against school starting that early and not show up, which would force teachers to delay instructional material for a a week or so later.

Reality is, people want the best of everything without giving up anything.[/quote]

Do you want some cheese with that whine?

Two half days in a week with no other school days is ridiculous. I can't believe they scheduled it this way.[/quote]

Well they're about to approve next year's calendar with the same Thanksgiving week schedule.[/quote]

And they are going to have Monday Dec. 22 and Tues Dec. 23 as days of instruction, where lots of families and teachers will be out "sick." [/quote]

SEIU was against closing those two additional days because it would mean many of their members wouldn't get paid for two weeks.[/quote] Many places have two weeks off even Christmas is on a weekend. Other places including Maryland aren't used to it, if possible increase pay to 1.25*rate the week before and the week after the break to offset the wait.[/quote]

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