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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a direct result of the ridiculous school calendar.

School should have been over last week. Continuing to stagger into June is idiotic. The people have spoken, will the School Board listen?[/quote]

THIS! If you care about the quality of education, you need to be pushing for a school calendar that gets out earlier. MUCH earlier. First week of June at the very latest. They are literally just killing time at school to fill up the required hours now and that goes for all grades, even elementary. [b]My 4th grader is turning in their laptops at the end of the day Thursday but they still have 3.5 days after that. What’s the point?[/b]![/quote]

Either you don't understand how 4th grade works or your child is at a really crappy school. My 4th grader's laptop stays at school, and is really only used for mandatory things (assessments, lexia, etc), so it wouldn't be a big deal at all if it got "turned in". I volunteered today and the teacher has the schedule for the next week written out, they have a LOT to finish up and are going to be doing school work up until the last day. [/quote]

I will tell you right now Thursday is going to be the last day for anything. They do have a test that day. Then the computers get turned in for good and I don’t think are even in the classrooms anymore. The SBTS has to make sure everything is accounted for and check whose computer is busted and everything and it takes a long time. For kids in instrumental music their instruments were turned in late last week or early this week so there’s no more music specials either.

It’s going to be 3.5 days of watching movies, parties, and playing games. There’s a family picnic on Monday and a lot of kids are going to go home afterward. Even field day is today. It’s literally just fudging time at this point. We could have been done much earlier without a bunch of dragging out of the calendar. [/quote]

3.5 days of not much is pretty normal. Was in the 90s. Still is. People on here are talking about the last few weeks, which is demonstrably different than a literal few days.[/quote]

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