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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a believer that students benefit most from having a continuous, three-month long, uninterrupted block of school days from mid-August through late-November before the Thanksgiving holidays, Christmas/Winter Break, and numerous weather delays and snow days start to break up the continuity of their academic year, and possibly affect overall teaching and learning.  And honestly pushing those missed days into late June is unhelpful, as I think the students start to mentally check out on June 1st, when those glorious summer days distract from learning.

Since this year's very late Labor Day will push the first day of classes into the (in my opinion) inexcusably late second week of September, will any of the area private schools put their students first and consider changing to a mid-or-late August start instead?  That will certainly make all of next winter's snow days and delayed starts (and there will be many) more palatable.  I would like to see the schools put their students first, and by announcing it now in April, it will give staff and families time to plan accordingly.[/quote]

[b]How about you respectfully acknowledge that this is the HOS decision, not yours. Unless of course, you wouldn't mind finding the HOS at your firm tomorrow talking to your partners about how your billable hours don't add up and that someone should really " take a look" [/b][/quote]

Just a friendly comment, and not meant to be too critical.

Previous poster, I understand the point you are trying to make, but your analogy does not hold up well from a lawyer's perspective.  You are probably not an attorney, and that's a good thing, because otherwise you might have offered the more analogous example of a law firm's client asking to review, and questioning, an attorney's billable hours.  That actually happens a lot.

In this case the parent is analogous to the law firm's client, the school is analogous to the law firm, and the examining the number of in-school days is analogous to the review of an attorney's billable hours.

There, we do have too many attorneys in this town.  :wink:  :D [/quote]

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