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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The addition of Transition Day is what dropped us from 2 to 1 snow day.  If we get rid of transition day and return to the preserve orientation model, we will automatically get an additional snow day back in the calendar.  There is no downside to that.[/quote]

No we won't. They will still plan for 181 days. They won't go back to 182.[/quote]

The entire goal of the proposed calendar adjustments is to [b]add days to the school year.  [/b]They are trying to get from 181 to 184.  If they revert Transition Day to a regular school day, they get to 182 immediately.  That leaves only two other calendar adjustments to get to their proposed goal:  Make November 9 and December 23 school days.  Done.[/quote]
Wrong they aren't proposing adding any days. They want to start the school year three days early so they can end it three days early so they can make up snow days after the school year ends but before Juneteenth to comply with what the State BOE directed.
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Exactly. They will still only have 181 days, no matter what they choose.[/quote]

Not true - if they eliminate transition day, they will automatically be up to 182 days without changing anything else.  When transition day was added, it dropped our total instructional days from 182 to 181.  They literally used an emergency day to implement that.[/quote]

Most schools had an open house or transition day for new students so this is Taylor doing something for the sake of doing it rather than looking at what was being done.  Another epic fail.[/quote]

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