Gee, I wonder if they got some angry phone calls?
They’ve been out of class for only a week and a half, but parent Nancy Neff, who fought for the change, feels the students benefited from that.
“I do think it was a great school year,” Neff said.
The national College Board sets the test dates, and it doesn’t consider when a district starts school. But Neff disagrees.
“I actually felt AP testing went better this year,” Neff said.
Neff says her kids were less stressed about their AP finals.
“This year they could focus on their tests and then they had a couple of weeks after AP testing to wrap up their projects and do their finals in their other courses, it really went quite smooth,” Neff said.
Wow! And that was just one parent. The funny part is that I have not heard one single complaint from a parent about the later start date. Who has been complaining? The teachers who just got our regressive sales taxes increased so they could receive raises for 9 months of work. That’s about it. They suckered the legislature for a tax increase that the voters shot down just a couple of years ago, and now they are complaining about another election because they were not ‘consulted’. Here’s the deal. We pay your wages, the property tax (and now sales tax) paying voters, we make the decisions. If you don’t like it, the private sector in Sioux Falls is hiring.
I also found it ironic that the wife (an AP teacher in Sioux Falls) of a former city councilor who constantly has sour grapes about the outdoor pool at Drake Springs was still complaining about an election that happened over 6 months ago. Better get used to it. Drake Springs has been here for over a decade, and the same old people still complain, I don’t find it any different with the start date.