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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People suggesting multiple weeks long breaks throughout the year are delusional. How much in a bubble are you that you think everyone else has the time and money to travel during those times? Talk about inequitable. The kids whose parents can’t afford to travel need childcare and there is no one to staff it when college students are not available. Not to mention many teachers would hate this schedule. It would push even more of them out of the profession. Who wants to deal with re-acclimating a classroom full of kids after several weeks off multiple times per year? People here think only of their own families and situations. The school board’s biggest mistake was sending out a survey about the calendar. It makes something simple so overly complicated trying to “let everyone’s voice be heard”. Why we can’t just do things like every other school district in this part of the country, I don’t know. [/quote]

+1 except for the survey part. 
They already knew what they wanted to do and built the survey so their "must dos" weren't even choices for people to vote on. There was no option in the survey to vote against the new religious holidays for instance.

re: summer - camps and longer sitter stints depend on the college kids being home. There is not enough labor to staff up camps at similar levels during non-summer periods of time.  Also the HS kids that are willing to also work at camps in the summer would be less likely to do that on breaks throughout the year since they'd be more likely to want at least part of that time to decompress or do school work. [/quote]

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