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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Shorten the school year

How much education goes on in public schools after Memorial Day?

So much has already wrapped up, and from listening to my kids talk, several teachers are just killing time until school ends next week.

So let's end the school year on the Friday before Memorial Day. And while we're at it, let's not start school back up until the day after Labor Day.