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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen - you need to understand that we live in a society where there is a balance between supply and demand. Teachers are in serious demand and in low supply. The counties need to keep them as happy as possible and they don’t have any money to give them decent pay increases.  So they give them time off. We had huge turnover at my kids school over the last 1 1/2 years. I will gladly take a couple days off rather than go back to online or have 50 kids in a class.  If you want to keep your kids in school, take care of your teachers. Seriously. 
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Then we really, really need to adapt the European model of year round school. 6 weeks on, 2 weeks off.

Let’s go already.[/quote]

That would be a nightmare for MS and HS where kids work, swim team and other activities.

That would be a nightmare for working parents to have to constantly arrange child care.  [/quote]

And yet Europe somehow manages! It boggles the mind. [/quote]
Not sure where you live in Europe, but in my Europe, school children get themselves to school and home. They can be home alone until parents get there.
They can even stay home alone when sick. Parents may or may not take a day off to stay home with them. Kids go to school at 7 and no 7-year old needs a grown-up with them at all times. Also, most kids live within walking distance to school. Fewer take public transportation and even fewer have a school bus organized by the county. Parents are not involved in schooling like they are here, and definitely not saddled with taking kids to school.[/quote]

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