[pillut48]

It’s the end of the school year. There’s lots of free time to be had, or don’t you remember? Teachers plan field days, award ceremonies (some official, like Honor Roll, etc.) and some silly, just on the grade level, which is what this sounds like it was. It’s not like these awards were handed out every single day of the school year!

[grellis]

I don't buy that for a second, not in our school district, which has a quicksand tax base. Field day I have no problem with, as long as it takes place during regularly sceduled PE combined with recess time, not the whole day. In-school teaching ends on the last day of the school year when the bell rings, period. Thank God my kids have teachers who think like that, and are actually interested in educating their students. Our district can't afford to waste teaching hours on this kind of BS. Our budget is so atrocious every second counts.