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Re: school cancellations

Coping with bad weather is just a part of living in WV. That is one good reason for changing the school calendar. Why even try to have school during the winter months?

Re: school cancellations

Tom, the only school in the county with air-conditioning is PCHS. Before school could be held in the summer, air-conditioning would have to be installed in all the remaining schools.

Re: school cancellations

Why would the schools have to have air-conditioning?
I went through 12 years of school some of which were hot days and was never in an air conditioned class room. Are you telling me the kids in Pocahontas County are now spending their summers days sitting in air conditioned homes or buildings?
Open the windows. It isn't that hot.

Re: school cancellations

Please work to change the school calendar. Then the school can cancel all they want and the days will be made up. Right now administrators are prone to wait until the last possible minute because they have an obligation to teach material and they know when school is canceled on 25 days or more during the winter there is no way to teach everything they should. So they hold out hope of getting an instruction day in.

And, Rednecked woman, don't characterize kids having to go to school to make up days as punishment for something they did not do. Please! These kids deserve, and we should demand, the best education possible, even if the little darlings have to suffer through school in June. Do you know that in Columbus, Ohio the Honda workers from Japan send their kids to school on Saturdays because the American schools and the American School Calendar do not allow enough time to teach material? No wonder this country's education system is ranked so low.

Re: school cancellations

Tom you are right. The school calendar is a holdover from years ago when students were needed to help with the work on farms;the hayfield,the gardens etc.. Now you are lucky to find a kid who will mow their yard! The teachers and administration all plan their vacations for the summer, so you won't likely see the calendar change.

Re: school cancellations

in ohio the west carrollton city schools have a schedule sort of like college quarters. they call it year round school. the kids sort of like it because they get a longish break in every season.

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