Picketing at my wife's school

[Fingolfin269]

"Hey let's go picket the school for being open today. I just need to stop by and fill up the car on the way, oh and maybe pick up a sausage/biscuit too."

 

[Wyndru]

My wife got MLK day off, but doesn't get president's day.

 

[Linflas]

Why the fuck would a school district have school on MLK day? Hell, even texas has it off.

What state/district is this, op?

Because most states have laws mandating the number of days classes have to be held to consider a school year complete. Some may also restrict how early in the summer they can start the school year and how late in June they can be open along with mandated Christmas and Spring breaks. In addition the schools need to build into the calendar make up days in case weather or other widespread unanticipated events cause schools to be closed. That leaves them trying to figure out which Federal holidays to observe and which to not observe.

 

[Jaepheth]

Make it an optional day with the whole day being one long civics/humanities course on human/civil rights.

 

[Printer Bandit]

No school on MLK day in Georgia.

 

[edro]

Her school is in the Detroit Metro Area

No school on MLK day in Georgia.

:hmm:

 

[natto fire]

I'm sure MLK would be the first to recommend that kids honor him by learning something on his day.

He probably would have more to say about how terrible public education is in some states, ergo they might have more a chance learning something by not going to school, YHLMV (your home life may vary).

 

[GotIssues]

You'd have to be a moron to picket, they are merely trying to create more picketers by preventing education so they have stronger numbers when they picket some other dumbass cause.

It's all about planning.

 

[piasabird]

Typically most employers only allow for about 10 paid holidays a year. Usually MLK does not make the cut. Sometimes we had to choose between Veterans day and the holiday for one of the dead presidents. Stupid teachers take so many days off for training already. They have all Summer to take their stupid classes.

I think they made MLK day during the coldest part of the year just so Black People would have to suffer if they wanted to go on a March or a protest. Why on earth is it during the coldest part of the winter?

Same question goes for the day the swear in the president?

 

[DrPizza]

Where was the teacher's union when it came to planning the following year's schedule? Generally, states set the minimum number of days that schools must be in session. Personally, I find the schedules slightly annoying in NY, compared to nearby PA (I student taught there.) Both states start at about the same time, and have school for the same number of days, but NY spreads their days out over about 3 more weeks. Unfortunately, because of this, NY gets out well after summer sessions have started at most universities, limiting the availability of courses you can take. I can't count the number of incredible opportunities I've had to turn down because the first week (or two) overlapped with final exams in NY. (Opportunity to work at Fermi-lab was one (or was it Brookhaven? Might have been Brookhaven), an opportunity for a program at Arizona State...)

Not to mention, every time there's a 3-day weekend, the students are usually "meh" on the Friday before, and are twice as "meh" on the Tuesday they return. Ditto before longer breaks (Easter, Spring, Winter (Xmas)) - elementary schools often have little parties for the students before major holidays. That spills over to the high school with students having an expectation of a party or some type of "we're not going to do work today, right? It's the last day before break." I used to love to schedule tests for that day, but it's a pita when a student is absent, then has to make up the test after the break - it results in me spending a lot of extra time working with one or two students to make sure they're refreshed on the material, then having them take the test.

(I can hear some of you thinking right now, "tough shit - if the student was absent, it's their fault. If they need to review, that's their problem." Unlike other states apparently, our annual performance appraisal accounts for student results - it's MY responsibility (as much as theirs) to make sure they've learned the material.


Anyway, if it were up to me, okay, you can have the week off between Christmas and New Years. And, Th/Fri off for Thanksgiving. And, Good Friday, Memorial Day, MLK, President's Day, Veteran's Day, and that's plenty.

 

[Exterous]

Where was the teacher's union when it came to planning the following year's schedule?

While I don't know for sure I don't think the union had a big problem with it. It has been an in service day for 3 years and before that they had school on MLK day so the teachers have pretty much always had to work on it. They have been playing with the school schedule a bit since they moved to Trimesters last year

 

[Jeff7]

Side note...we don't get any holidays for things that scientists did. I don't recall ever getting any paid time off to honor Tesla or Einstein. The social-problem-solvers get all the glory. :\

 

[Linflas]

Side note...we don't get any holidays for things that scientists did. I don't recall ever getting any paid time off to honor Tesla or Einstein. The social-problem-solvers get all the glory. :\

Of the 10 Federal holidays only 3 are for individuals and of those 3 only 1 could be considered in any way a social-problem solver.