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Moms Talk: Does School Start Too Soon?
Public school students in our community head back to school Monday. What happened to Labor Day starts?
Public school students in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area head back to school Monday. The date will be Aug. 8.
When I was going back to school in the '80s, we went back after Labor Day, which, now, seems excessively late.
But over the last 10 years as a journalist covering education, I've noticed more parents getting frustrated over calendar creep. When I was in South Carolina, a group of parents across the state even formed an organization, Save SC Summers, which lobbied to keep school calendars from moving backward beyond mid-August.
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I don't sense the same frustration here in Georgia but I'm wondering if parents are privately frustrated (or focused on more immediate school system frustrations).
What do you guys think about our start time? Is it a good time to go back? Or is it unreasonably early? Let me know in the comment box below.
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