Denver Public Schools Late-Start Schedule Days
We, the undersigned family members of Denver Public Schools students, find the district's decision to add six half-days of school to the current year's calendar to be grossly insensitive to the needs... continue reading »
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"3 Full days off would be preferable, due to parents taking work vacation time to accomodate children at schools with varying late start times. We decided not to even send our children to school for the late start day."
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"What a waste of a school day. Why can't DPS combine for a full teacher day."
"For working families, this is a great inconvenience and considerable expense. Please recognize this and plan differently. thank you."
"How about considering the concept of more TEACHING days? I get my professional training on my own time and at my own expense. ."
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"Why don't you have teachers do training over the summer. You want children to stay in attendance all year how can they with a schedule if at random times it is totally confused. A complete mess!!!"
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"At our school, we had students who were dropped off at 8:00. They knew school started at 11:55, but their parents told them to play outside. While staff was in Professional Development, students were wanting to come in the building either because it was t"
"My kids have not and will not attend school on these days. The district was negligent in not considering the impact that this schedule change would have on working families who are trying to survive during the recession!!!"
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"The late start days are inconsiderate to working parents who have to arrange days off or re-formulate childcare options"
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"Please be aware that all concerned feel this day is a "day off" - especially the students. I would like DPS to review the attendance records on these dates to realize their error. I'm just frustrated that in addition to the numerous no-learning testing da"
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