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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all the fighting over the first day of school, no one paid attention to the last. I emailed and emailed. June 18 is late to be getting out. And, folks, the religious holidays are why. That’s the difference. I’m happy if they keep them. But they need to find other days to cut. [/quote]

The religious holidays are only four days. They could keep them and get rid of other random days off (like grade prep days) and have kids come to school on veterans day. [/quote]
Why do you think grade prep days are less important than religious holidays?[/quote]

I work in APS and I agree.  When I taught in NY we never had grade prep days.  Especially now with electronic grading.  So dumb.[/quote]

I’m guessing you don’t teach elementary. Writing personalized comments for each child takes hours. Now that I’m in middle school, grade prep is a much faster process.[/quote]

Even with APS’s new retake policy? I ask because secondary teachers have said that adds a lot of time to their grading.[/quote]

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