Both are excellent ideas. There are so many things that could be done to make our public schools more efficient and self-sustaining. Without a dime spent to accomplish them.
The East Grand School District shows us two of them.
Tonya Bina:
"A calendar committee of the East Grand School Board Accountability Committee has recommended changing the East Grand school calendar to start the day after Labor Day.
From a community survey the committee conducted during the last three weeks of January, committee members found that a calendar starting school on Sept. 4 and ending on June 6 was the clear winner among 365 survey respondents. The survey takers chose from four different school calendars.
In order to start school after Labor Day, the calendar sacrifices vacation time leading up to Thanksgiving, with just Thanksgiving on Nov. 22 off, and shows no day in February off as a substitute for President's Day. The calendar shows the 2012-2013 winter break from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4.....
......After the presentation of the committee's recommendation, Dick Romshek, a retired high school teacher and past accountability committee member who sat in the audience, asked the committee to review next year changing the school week back to Tuesday through Friday.
Romshek said because of the amount of school-related extra-curricular activities on Thursdays-Saturdays, many times children would benefit from a Monday off to focus on getting ready for the school week...."
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