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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To defend Shapiro, aside from a small amount of PTA volunteering, I too didn't give a sh$t about the school board until they pushed our start date before Labor Day, renamed our schools to the tune of a million dollars and kept the schools closed. Frankly he'd be one of 8 and it's good to have a more conservative opinion given the liberal activists that were on the board for the last 4 years.[/quote]

I’m assuming you weren’t trying to get voted on the school board (twice) like Shapiro was last year with no kids in the schools? Agree, good to have differing views. Everyone is entitled to their say. “Liberal activists” is a little harsh though.

A genuine question here: how did the school remaining cost a million? [/quote]

It's really not - the entire town was against the name change and they did it anyway. The town was also against a pre-Labor Day start. Activists oush an agenda on everyone else. That's why people are upset.

It cost $486K to rename Jeb Stuart. Round up and add inflation for two schools named after patriots. The school board had a joke of a cost estimate under 100K so they didn't have to get it approved. [/quote]

Renaming the schools did not cost anywhere near the cost to  change Jeb Stuart, partly because there was already a new HS being built so the costs of changing signs, etc, was already built in.

The entire town was not against a pre-Labor Day start. Most schools in this country and the region start before Labor Day. Last year, Labor Day was extremely late and starting after Labor Day plus having 2 weeks off for Christmas (which I'm opposed to but most people want) meant the last day of school was going to be close to July 4th. That's ridiculous.

Our kids have to take IB and AP exams on nationally-mandated days. Starting school 2 to 4 weeks later than many, many parts of the country means that they're disadvantaged in terms of learning days before those exams. That's the biggest reason the calendar committee decided to start school prior to Labor Day last year (2 weeks before Labor Day) and this year (1 week before Labor Day). The school board basically votes to approve or reject the calendar that the calendar committee has created.

If you want to find a school that starts after Labor Day, you will almost certainly have to go private, where they don't have the mandated 180 classroom days plus some built in days for teacher workdays to do report cards and grading. The privates have fewer school days. [/quote]

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