Comments on: Decatur Schools To Only Make Up One Snow Day – On March 14th

By: CSD Mom

CSD Mom — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:13:44 +0000

AGREED!

By: karass

karass — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:03:55 +0000

How do you know posters aren’t doing all that? My sense is that the folks who post on DM are many of the do-ers around Decatur.

By: LS

LS — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:51:29 +0000

Teacher’s last day is June 1, a Wed. We start back the last week of July. It was the 25th, unless they changed it. So, I guess that’s technically 7 1/2 weeks for teachers. Students’ would get more days.

By: writerchad

writerchad — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:35:37 +0000

I seriously don’t see the connection between not making up 4 days of school and America’s lagging behind the industrialized world in terms of education. It’s not indicative of Decatur parents toward education. It’s an exceptional circumstance. (I’ve lived here most of my adult life and rarely seen snow and ice and March as someone pointed out.) If you wish to help the schools don’t just anonymously point out what you perceive to be CSD’s failings, volunteer at College Heights to help struggling pre-K students. Volunteer at the Boys and Girls club in Oakhurst to do some tutoring. How much of this opposition is coming from judgmental non-parents? I had all the answers about education and children before I actually became a parent.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:01:33 +0000

sorry

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:54:43 +0000

First time commenters’ comments are sent to moderation.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:40:26 +0000

my comment deleted? seriously? hence my point that we are getting too soft. I guess I should “tone down the rhetoric”

By: margaret

margaret — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:37:33 +0000

Agreed Robert. What? you cant reschedule a trip? dont most airlines give you a year to use a voucher for a rescheduled trip? is the 75 dollar charge for that too much to take? I guess it doesnt matter that we no longer produce the number of engineers and scientist we used to. I suppose the ever vital February vacation is far more important.