This attitude really chaps my hyde.
“By that time of the year, especially in the year that we’ve had,” said Germantown teachers union president Kevin Nodolf, who agreed to Germantown’s schedule change, “I don’t know how productive adding one more day at the end would have been.”
Whose responsibility is it to make sure that instructional time is productive? The teachers! If they can’t make a day of instruction productive, then they should be replaced with teachers who can.