Right Susan, you're concerned for the "families." No you're not, you're concerned that teachers won't get their 8 weeks of holidays in the summer! You're concerned because teachers are no longer in control of this any more. I'm sure your militant union will just threaten more strikes and more stamping of your feet if you don't get your own way...

Teachers only care about the hip pocket and glorious pensions. University students grads in teaching cannot get a job because there are still over 220 B.C. teacher federation teachers still teaching over the age of 65 because of the greed of the hip pocket. The hip pocket will not save them from a terminal disease. Teachers are a joke. In the good old days when I went to school and had to use the school library after school for homework research, I would sometime leave the school at 6:30 pm and there would still be teachers in the school. The other day, I was walking past my local high school in the pouring rain. Buckets of it. I had an umbrella of course. Students were playing football in the playground ready to catch pneumonia and yet our $75,000 plus teacher is standing under a canopy staying out of the rain and blowing his whistle. Why can't he be out in the field with them. Things better start changing immediately for the better. ONE BIG JOKE!

I support teachers, but this position makes no sense. There is absolutely nothing wrong about districts scheduling their own school calender.

Susan Lambert and BCTF have zero credibility, who cares what they say in their comments? We all know they have no interest except more more more for themselves. Kids and families are not even on their priority list.

"Concerned"? I don't think so.