Our Views: ; School Calendars Need Flexibility; the State's Inflexibility Is Making School Inconvenient for the Public

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TODAY is not the first day of two weeks off for the Christmas holidays for students in the Kanawha County schools. Instead of having 10 consecutive school days off, students had to come in for a few hours of "instruction" today.

Surely no one believes much actual instruction takes place on a partial day, given all the time that must be devoted to herding students from buses to classrooms and classrooms to cafeterias and back to buses again.

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Our Views: ; School Calendars Need Flexibility; the State's Inflexibility Is Making School Inconvenient for the Public

Wise educators will have made the best of a bad situation and scheduled holiday parties for today. That's...

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