dr berry post

Dear Dr. Berry,

I think we should think about the last time we have even had six snow days? Snow days are put in a school to give a break because harsh weather is expected but there are only four of them built in; so that means that we maybe should think about making up time, but like most kids, even teachers, this is an annoyance most kids don’t do much the last two days of school unless you’re in high school. There are so many more variables then just adding two more days to school.  I think you should look at everything before you just make your decision to add school.

See I believe that making up the days could be very useful for high school kids I mean extra days to study for finals!  Then you get to the part of the middle and elementary schools, which do absolutely nothing in the last couple days. I mean do you have a kid in that grade? Or even better do you remember your last days of fourth grade? Would you want two more days of that?

First off think about all the extra expenses that go into keeping the schools open? Like the air conditioner, the lights, bathrooms, cleaning supplies , free lunches, gas to run the buses, all the stuff that you could save for next year, because next year we may even be worse than this year that extra money you have know could help pay for that five dollar gas or four dollar paper towels for the bathrooms.

Secondly what is more stressful then a bunch of little kids in a class room, and for two extra days you also could have teachers who now have to pay for two more days of daycare. People these days are on budget cuts. The economy is not very good as most people know so you don’t want to have to make people who don’t make a huge chunk of change spend more money.

The Olathe school district should find another matter of adding school. Adding days onto the end of school is not a very good route to keep kids in school

Sincerely,

Andrew Madsen