Back in November we speculated on whether or not the local schools would add days to the school year to make up for days lost because of Superstorm Sandy. Not surprisingly, none of them did. They eliminated teacher training day (which should be eliminated permanently), but they did not add any days in June.
In fact, He'atid just announced that they are eliminating school on June 21st which was supposed to be the last day & are now ending school on June 20th, "in order to provide our faculty and staff the much needed time to properly end the school year."
Here are the dates of the last day of school for the 6 Orthodox JDS's in BC:
BPY - June 20
He'atid - June 20
Moriah (preschool) - June 20
Moriah grades 1-7 - June 21
Noam - June 19
RYNJ - June 20
Yavneh - June 19
P.S. When school ends at 11:30 it really shouldn't count as a day. For most families with 2 working parents it makes things harder than if school were just canceled altogether.
Monday, June 10, 2013
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GUEST 4 · 616 weeks ago
Do you think you deserve a refund for these 3-5 days. Let's have some perspective - people died , people lost their homes and their livelihoods. The most many of us lost was power, some food, and some school days. I think we were all pretty lucky!
School's cancelled professional days and added instruction and some added back in the Friday before pesach. So to say that no time was made up in 100% false.
Let me ask - did you miss any work days due to Sandy? I'm pretty sure most people missed at least 1-2 days if not more. Did your company take away your vacation time, dock your pay, or make you work national holidays to make up for it....doubt it.
why hold the yeshiva's to an unrealistic standard and criticize them for what other schools and businesses did as well?
Sandy was a huge disaster that I pray we don't see again.....
Yeshiva_Dad 69p · 615 weeks ago
I won't comment on my personal situation but in general, businesses with clients have to get clients what they pay for, regardless of weather or any other factors. Otherwise the clients get a refund.
GUEST 4 · 615 weeks ago
but in reality, you can see that even Heatid did not reach 180 this year after promising. Where are they to make it up when school ends Friday and camps start Monday.
Pressure the camps to start later so the schools can go later. The camps used to start later and then realized they can make more money by starting earlier and it filled the need that the parents didn't want the gap. Yet still, not everyone is happy.
You also aren't just pushing for 180 days, it is 180 days that work for you,
The schools can go into July, add more vacation and still reach 180. That wouldn't make you happy.
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