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After school principals howled over a new deal between the city and teachers union that allowed teachers to return to school on the same day as students, the city has announced that the 2009-2010 will start on September 9 (a Wednesday), instead of September 8, the Tuesday after Labor Day. The school year will also end a day later. Mayor Bloomberg said, "This agreement will allow us keep the school year intact with kids in the classroom for the same number of days, while providing teachers and principals an administrative day to prepare for the arrival of students." Principals, who had complained teachers were missing the chance to organize their classrooms and that the first day of school would be chaotic, are pleased, though there previously were two administrative days before school's start. Ernest Logan, president of the principals union, said, "Common sense prevails."
2009-2010 School Year Starts One Day Later
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great! as a children's librarian now I'll know the exact day to expect them to come barreling out of the school and into the library.
I said this last week. You can move the dates, but it still has to add up to 180 days.
I'm not quite sure about this change. It doesn't feel "right" to have the last day of school be a Monday. It'd be strange to go back to school for just one day after the weekend. I don't understand why the teachers were so incensed about showing up a couple of days before Labor Day. You've had the entire damn summer off. It's not like you need to stay away from school right up until the last minute. Everybody else would kill for an entire summer off every year. Ah, to have the summers of school age again.
Things would easily go on your way!
School time is fast coming,.
let's see if how long the students would be excited.
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When a group of people feel powerless in a system, little victories (such as a few days given back) are important. Also, "everybody else would kill for an entire summer off every year"... but in truth... not everybody can be teachers (or would want to be).