"JennP" wrote in message
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"chiam margalit" wrote in message
om...
We get email today from the principal notifying us that Dec 1, the
monday after T'giving, is now a school day whilst before it was a day
off.

I give up. I'll just send the kids to school when I feel like it, and
the heck with the calendar.

Seriously?? No district I've ever taught in has made school calendar
changes
once the calendar is voted on A YEAR IN ADVANCE at the board meeting.

The only changes made mid-year that I've heard of are due to excessive
amounts of snow days. Usually they will change the last day of school and
sometimes (very rarely) change a vacation.

In school districts that I have taught in, they sometimes indicate some
vacation days throughout the year as potential make up days to let us know
that it would be possible for the day to become a day of classes if
necessary. I assume that this is not the case here.

Aaron