Tennessee lawmakers say no to later school start date

[strickj]

To heck with A/C how many school buses have seat belts?

Actually all school busses have seatbelts.The drivers seat,and the first seat

[Guest rj8806]

Actually all school busses have seatbelts.The drivers seat,and the first seat

Yeah, that's one I never understood. You will get a ticket for driving with no seatbelt in your vehicle yet the school buses have no one strapped in except the driver and whoever is in the first seat. Makes perfect sense to me.

Richard

[Tim Nunan]

Here is the current law on a school term 49-6-3004 There has to be at least 200 days of school. 180 classroom days, 10 days of paid vacation (200 day term) or 11 paid days ( if 221 day term) or 12 paid days (if 240 day term), 5 days of in-service, 1 day for a Parent-Teacher conference and 4 days at the discretion of the local Board of Ed.

It would seem the real reason that most school systems have to start so soon is because of all the breaks, administrative days, etc... through out the year. Cut a few of them and you could start a week or two later at least.

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Looks like the teacher's union has created this situation.

[Medio]

Ding Ding Ding Tim wins the prize. Not only the teachers unions, but the entire Department of Education. There was nothing wrong with the original schedules of having the summer off like EVERY single one of us had(unless your from Cali). I never got into trouble and and enjoyed that break from school. It is needed when you are that age. Every spring at my high school when the temperature started going up they would never turn the AC on. They would tell us that they couldn't because the switch was in Texas? I never understood that one.