For Those With Kids

Why don't they just cancel spring break?

There is 5 days right there.

That will mess with some schedules but we did have some days that it was better to be safe then sorry.

I'm a senior at Bauxite and it's frustrating as hell how they did it so irrationally. Teachers, churches, students, parents all found out on the Facebook page. I also spent three hours in the audiotorium wasting time for that shite PARCC test, and they think I needed another hour on my day. It's frustrating how they made it start earlier too. 10 minutes might not seem like much, but we have 6 people all trying to get ready at the same time and one little disruption of the morning schedule makes it a mad house. I'll be battling for the barthroom for sure.

Not to mention after watching the seniors brag in the past about how they don't make up snow days it blows so hard we have to make these up. Whatever I guess, I'm out in 8 weeks

Seniors are really mad about it. A lot of people were planning to check out on 3:15 and one guy was making shirts (got shot down quickly though, principal threatened him with in school suspension for the rest of the year). We also got news networks here, which was a pretty neat thing to see unfold (although they were probably coming anyway). There's nothing we can do about anymore though, so most of us are just in the frick the school mode. I tend to agree, so can't wait to get out lol.

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This was done the same exact way.

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Seems a little disrespectful honestly. We had 250+ student signatures on a rag tag petition (Bauxite is 4A, that's a damn good amount for just high school), so the whole "we didn't do anything like a meeting because we can't please everybody" narrative they've been running this is pretty lame, since they picked the option that pleased practically no one.

Yeah or have them get married at 12.

You guys are cold.
How many of you have a nearly 2 hour (one way) commute to work every day?

Not much that can be done about it, but at least have a LITTLE sympathy for kids that have to ride a yellow dog for nearly 4 hours a day.
It sucks big time.

Bottom line is that you do what you have to do, but that doesn't keep it from sucking.

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This whole thing is ridiculous. A kid's life is not going to change because they attended 5 less days of school this year. Just let it be and move on. No need to make up days at all.

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While I agree with you in large part, it's also about financial accountability. Schools get money from the state and national government to fulfill a certain number of instructional and contract days for students and employees.

If you don't make them make those days up, schools could close at the merest hint of snow if they wanted to as a cost saving measure. What would stop a school from knocking 20 days off the school year then taking the extra money and funneling it into raises for administration or teachers?

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If you don't make them make those days up, schools could close at the merest hint of snow if they wanted to as a cost saving measure. What would stop a school from knocking 20 days off the school year then taking the extra money and funneling it into raises for administration or teachers?

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I see your point, but I think a better check on that potential abuse, in a perfect world, is the firing of admins who try to take advantage of the system.

It's all about reasonableness, but unfortunately our society is full of grown children trying to run things so we need strict guidlines to follow or else they will abuse the system either intentionally or by their negligence/lack of intelligence. If society was still filled with responsible, reasonable adults, then we could just trust that reasonable, responsible decisions would be made without having to stand over their shoulder and count the minutes of each school day.