Posted on 10/25/2021 12:44:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHAPEL HILL, N,.C. (AP) — Students in a North Carolina school system will have the entire week of Thanksgiving off to support students and staff members’ mental health and wellness, the district has announced.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools said the new days off, which also include an optional teacher work day and two new “wellness” days, are among several new initiatives the school board approved last week, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.
In a presentation Thursday night, Superintendent Nyah Hamlett cited feedback from employees, students and families as reasons for the initiatives, which also include two years of retention bonuses for most district staff.
“I cannot express how much our students and staff are struggling. We need help,” said Madison Lin, student body president at Chapel Hill High School. “Our mental health is declining at an unsustainable rate.”
With the changes to the calendar, Monday, Nov. 22, is now an optional teacher workday with no students in school. The next two days are wellness days leading into Thanksgiving with neither students nor employees in schools.
Another wellness day is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, the system announced.
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Public school will make you crazy.
So stop playing along with the fake pandemic.
This has got to be really good for the mental health of the parents of young children who now have to arrange for short-term day-care. /s
Taxpayer paid vacations for teachers. They should be teaching Monday through Wednesday, just like schools always have. And I bet the parents in the community, if asked, would say the same thing!
They are doing this to themselves.
Then they complain about the stress.
Then they get extra vacations.
A week for wimps.
Our tax money is stolen and given to unions who will not teach.
“I cannot express how much our students and staff are struggling. We need help”
Good grief
Nobody in the school system cares about the domestic terrorists parents.
They barely tolerate the students!
"The law's delay -- the insolence of office -- and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes..."
--Hamlet
Oh, well.
We have become a nation of coddled, pampered, wusses.
We have done this for years in West Virginia; it’s called hunting season.
Biden: Do I have to join the school system to get a week off, too? You’re a teacher, Jill. I could be your teacher’s aide. Whaddya’ say?
I always remember how all the teachers, parents, and politicians complaining how over worked and underpaid our poor poor teachers are. They don’t even work 6 months our of the year but get fabulous benefits and pay. Schools spend more money then anywhere else in the world and the result is crap.
Our schools in Indiana have generally gone to a much shorter summer vacation and longer breaks at holidays and also fall and spring break. I think it works well.
hunting season....
Funny.
The origin of the school semester calendar was children of farmers were desperately needed as family labor during the months now called summer vacation. At one time over 80% of all workers in the US were involved directly or indirectly with farms. The kids would help and then go back to school in September.
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