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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least in the case of Jan time off for the inauguration, that isn’t optional. It is a city holiday and transit etc is discouraged and a mess for those not involved in it. If the school flat out forgot to take that one into account, then they had to retool. [/quote]

Right, but how do you overlook that when your job is making an academic calendar? It's an established federal holiday, not some surprise surprise snow day.[/quote]

Right.  All the more embarrassing to have forgotten it.  Shouldn't the campaigns be kind of a reminder that it's an election year?[/quote]

Did the school even say they forgot Inaguration or is someone assuming? [/quote]

JFC

“Our previously announced start date of August 31 did not take into account Inauguration Day on January 20 — which falls on a Wednesday, the same week as MLK, Jr. Day.”

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I didn't read that as they forgot about inauguration day -- I don't think they released a full calendar earlier, just the start date -- I thought they realized if they were going to be closed on Monday and Wednesday they should just close on Tuesday, too....and that plus the training days started to impact the 180 required instructional days. Instead of ending later they moved it up.

I wish they had all the details worked out for the Wednesday training days before they sent out the calendar, but I think they realized they had to get the revised start date out ASAP and didn't want to then surprise everyone again with the Wednesday schedule change.  [/quote]

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