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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Originally Posted by m378
1. I care about what happens in this state.
2. It's a national demonstration and CH will be far from the only district affected.
Well, it's only one day, and Chapel Hill doesn't have to make up the school day since they added extra minutes to the school day this year, so it's like having another snow day as far as affecting students' learning, if that is what you are concerned about. I'm betting lots of the older students in Chapel Hill will be attending some of the demonstrations, so they might actually get more of a civics education than if they just read about it in a text book in school.
Well, it's only one day, and Chapel Hill doesn't have to make up the school day since they added extra minutes to the school day this year, so it's like having another snow day as far as affecting students' learning, if that is what you are concerned about. I'm betting lots of the older students in Chapel Hill will be attending some of the demonstrations, so they might actually get more of a civics education than if they just read about it in a text book in school.
I think a better lesson would be taught by showing up to work and doing their job like they're supposed to.
Last time I checked, Chapel Hill-Carrboro has one of the best school districts in the state so they get some leeway I guess. Now if this was another school district that wasn't doing well, I might be more concerned with missing a day of school for a protest.
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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I think a better lesson would be taught by showing up to work and doing their job like they're supposed to.
Just my opinion - you're entitled to yours.
Perhaps, but they do that on the other 179 days of the school year. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other about people who want to take the day off to demonstrate. But I see nothing wrong with the school canceling because they won't have enough staff.
For clarification; the school district isn't exactly "closing for women's strike"....that's just a bold attention-gettiing title for WRAL to use..... they are closing in anticipation of not having staff to properly run the school day. Their faculty and staff all have sick and vacation days that they can use. If a majority or sizable amount say they are going to use one of their sick/vacation days on the same day ( their is nothing that says they cannot) what is the district supposed to do? Their hands are sort of tied.
You can't just say "fire them all"...for several reasons.
1. Whether one agrees with the reasons behind their taking off or not; teachers and staff at a school are employees with sick time and vacation time just like most full-time employees of most employers...private or public. They are within their rights and employment parameters to take them when they want
2. There's a pretty significant shortage of teachers in the area and replacing them all at once would pretty much be impossible. Much more detrimental to the students in the district than having a day off of school (FWIW...CHCCS has a 184 day school year, 4 days above the 180 minimum set by the state of NC that most districts stick to)
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