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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone acting like these teacher workdays are where they are for an actual reason relating to the teachers' needs.  Nah.  Any workdays not tied to the end of the quarter or beginning/end of the school year are specifically being used for giving a cultural, religious, or federal day off without calling it that.  Stop blaming teacher workdays for the calendar.  We know they don't belong randomly in the middle of the week in the middle of the quarter.  We don't need them then either.  They're just a cover for the school board's desire to give everybody everything.

TW 9/9 - Special election
TW 10/13 - Indigenous People Day
TW 2/17 - Lunar New Year
SP 4/6 - Easter Monday (although this coincides with the end of the quarter so SHOULD be a TW, not an SP and the one that follows on Friday that week should have been right after it on Tuesday)
TW 4/10 - Orthodox Good Friday
TW/PD 4/21 - Special election
TW 5/26 - sandwiched between Memorial Day and Eid al-Adha so we wouldn't come back for one day and then be off again for another religious holiday.

And actually, there's only supposed to be 15 additional teacher work days and they've got 16 scheduled AND just added another one.  So now we're up to 17.  So, that's annoying too.  [/quote]

I agree with you on most of that, but where we really need a TW, at least at the ES level, is when grades are due for the fourth quarter. That would be 1.5-2 weeks before the last day of school. It makes no sense to me why there is never one set aside for 4th quarter grading, especially when the marks are doubled with the final grades. [/quote]

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