The calendar caper continues

Bills are being introduced in the State House allowing local school districts to have more flexibility with creating school calendars; this in the wake of the recent public dog fight between Guilford County Schools and the state Department of Public Instruction over the district's calender and end-of-school-year make-up days that were added due to the snowstorm earlier in the month.

And it is still a point of controversy.

The latest...a LTTE in today's News & Record mentions the group Save Our Summers in advocating that the school calendar should not be toyed with.

Doug Clark, whose wife is a teacher, mentions in his N&R blog that local school boards should be in charge of their calendars, not Raleigh bureaucrats.

And while I also think school should not start in early August, I do think that it should be left up to local boards. In addition, I think our calendar is too dependent on low-stakes testing of our children (notice I didn't say high-stakes testing...because there's nothing high-stakes about it).

I welcome the debate also.

E.C. :)