We will have a video up soon of the meeting last night.
I think it was obvious why this went to the ballot to begin with, the district did not want to compromise (start school the final Monday in August). It sounds like what parents want anyway;
“The last Monday in August for example, the week right before Labor Day is to me I think a good compromise. I think we need to keep talking and giving more creative ideas because I just think there’s more than one way for it to work out,” Sorensen said.
Of course the students feel like they are being left out. Well, you should be, unless you are of voting age. First off, because of the obvious, you are not funding your education, the voters are, and secondly, it seems a bit selfish to make it about ‘YOU’ the school start date also affects future students, but most importantly it affects seasonal businesses, grandparents (who provide childcare) and other folks who may not have children in the school district but do fund the system.
Hopefully the school board will grow a brain this time around and listen to THE VOTERS (parents included) and not the whining of a handful of AP students and AP teachers.
Is this a smokescreen subject used to defer more important topics? Let it go. It’s been decided. Reminds me of lawyers. They’ll argue for something and win then argue why they won.
I thought the purpose of a public school system was to educate students as best as possible. I did know that is dependent on what works best for businesses. This issue always seems out of character for you. Like you have some sort of chip on your shoulder.
No chip, I’ll just what I have said from the beginning, the people who fund public education, whether that be single folks, seniors, businesses, parents, etc. should have say in how that money is spent.
No chip, I’ll just what I have said from the beginning, the people who fund public education, whether that be single folks, seniors, businesses, parents, etc. should have say in how that money is spent.
This thing where they just say, thanks for the money, now move along we’ll make the right decision, you are not smart enough, reminds me of what our state legislators just did.
Well, that takes a lot of chutzpa to try to change it back already. But I do believe the AP crowd has a legitimate complaint.
That said, I am really sick and tired of this issue. In fact, this issue embarrasses me as a citizen of this town. It has a simpleton quality reminiscent of an underlining topic from an episode of Mayberry.
Frankly, with the declining numbers in our middles class, fewer and fewer families go on vacation any more in the summer with their “Family Truckster.” And “Saving the Summer” is really only a concern for the upper classes. Think how much daycare costs could be saved for the lower classes if kids went to school throughout the year with a couple mini breaks.
It is time both sides grew up and realized that we need to exist in the 21st century with a modern school calendar, and not with this current 19th century nine month agrarian school calendar that we are clinging onto for some apparent emotional reason….