Is the proposed calendar “balanced” or “year round?
01/13/2006 – Advocates of the proposed calendar call it a “balanced” calendar. A true year-round calendar, they say, does not have eight weeks summer break but only four to six. Here’s why we insist that calling this calendar a “balanced” calendar is simply PR. Under the proposed “balanced” calendar our kids will be in class all or part of 11 months of 12 of the year. Read that again: our kids will be in class all or part of 11 months of 12 of the year. It is a year-round calendar. And that’s what we call it.
