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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are absolutely ridiculous!

No one wants surveys.  Just fix the silly calendar in a manner that minimizes all these fragmented weeks![/quote]

You can’t fix the calendar without getting rid of religious/cultural holidays in an extraordinarily diverse county.  Constituents of those communities should have the say on whether those days are student holidays.  If Indians are good with school on Diwali, great.  If Jewish folks are good with only one of Rosh/Yom and Muslims are good with only one of the Eid’s, also great.  But, no, you can’t have a bunch of white/black school board members simply stating that we aren’t going to observe the non-Christian holidays anymore because parents are annoyed that they have to find child care.[/quote]
There are ways of improving the calendar without removing all the religious holidays. Last night highlighted how much information is missing from the calendars.

There should be a second page, as is done in other counties, that details when early releases occur and the grade levels impacted. The only early releases published are the school wide end of quarter releases. The elementary school releases are tracked on a separate page, and they’re not in calendar view, so you don’t see how close they are to existing closures and early releases. That was a huge problem this year for one of the regions.

Then there’s apparently a bunch of informal High School early releases around P/SATs and finals.

There should be community engagement from both teachers, principals, and caregivers on how to handle needed planning time. It sounds like Wednesday early releases were unpopular across the board. How can they fix it?[/quote]

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