Forum scheduled Thursday to discuss school calendar
To gauge feelings about adopting an alternative school calendar, the Warren County Board of Education will hold a public forum Thursday night. Both those for and against an alternative calendar will be given a chance to express their opinions and concerns.
The board is considering three calendars for next year: a 45-10 calendar, a 45-15 calendar and the traditional, or current, calendar.
Under a 45-10 calendar, students would begin school around the first of August and attend four, nine-week (45-day) sessions, followed by three, two-week (10-day) breaks. They would end school around the first of June and have an eight-week summer break. This calendar is a slightly modified version of the 45-15 calendar where students attend nine-week sessions, followed by three-week breaks, with a six-week summer break.
Surveys completed in November by both the school board and the Warren County Education Association (the teachers union) showed a 45-10 calendar to be the most popular, followed by the traditional calendar and the 45-15 calendar, respectively. The results of a similar survey designed to gauge public sentiment will be reported Thursday night.
School board members have stressed the public forum will be a listening session only, and that no decisions will be made.