Wasting tax dollars
It’s the day before the Christmas holidays and students are still in school? There are so many students who travel for the holidays and I would like to say that is pretty hard to do if they still have class the day before Christmas. And by the way the students at the high school are not learning anything today because the teachers don’t want to be there either. Thanks for taking my tax paying dollars and putting them to waste.
Billfold was returned
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Add commentHolidays off.
Maybe it would make more sense if ALL of the Brainerd schools had the same days off. The elementary schools did not go on Friday, December 23, yet the middle and high schools did. Still haven't found the reasoning behind that brainstorm. A lot of families have kids in all three schools.
add a bit to the equation
Then there's this... perhaps the reason the schools go so close to the holiday is that they're forced by law to not open until AFTER Labor Day so the resorters have the kids available for working the big Labor Day weekend. By law, schools must be in session a certain amount of days, so they're forced to squeeze their days into the calendar like this..... maybe, johngalt, it isn't necessarily all the fault of the Liberals. Maybe sometimes, its partly due to the dollar hungry folks out there who don't care if they're liberal or conservative, just so they make their buck.
In Minnesota,
there is no law requiring the schools to be open a certain number of days (check the MN Dept. of Ed.). It is also a recognized fact that it would only cost the State lost sales tax dollars, by opening schools before Labor Day, because of the revenue that would be lost by the State's second largest industry, tourism. Also, in a study conducted in SE Minnesota by schools that did open before Labor Day and added days to their calendar that there was no increase in test scores.
Assert a little common sense here
When the school district doesn't get it. If you can justify it, pull your kids out of school. If they get unexcused abscence, go right to the school board with it.
I don't understand why one group of kids should get the day off while the other doesn't. If district officials don't understand the difficulty that creates for families over the holiday season, the board needs to hear about it. Don't bother complaining for long if you get any resistance from the district. If your board member won't take the issue up, then vote for a different member the next time.
This isn't so hard, but things never change if all you do is sit back and complain about it.
Dec. 23 school day
Did any gripers take five minutes to call anyone at the school district's central office to find out why elementary students were not in school on the 23rd? I would venture to guess that someone there might have answered your question. It's no deep dark secret. Pick up the phone and make a simple phone call.
Elementary teachers worked a
Elementary teachers worked a non contract day last summer doing observation surveys of all students enrolled in k through 4. This is to help prepare for the wide range of students coming into your classroom. Middle school and high school teachers did not work the non contract day so they worked the 23rd.