2020s Changing the School Year

By: Nathaniel Heckler, Website Editor         Published: November 12, 2019

An official announcement about the Clark County School District’s calendar change for the upcoming school year.

According to the new CCSD calendar, there are four staff development days back on the calendar and the Thanksgiving break has been reduced to only Wednesday through Friday.

Mrs. Galindo said that it’s sad to see the Monday and Tuesday leaving our holiday scheduling. Visiting family and cooking is done a lot that week and it will be harder for those who do cook during Thanksgiving week on those days and will make it more stressful for travels and cooking. “It knocks a lot of the fun out of the week,” she said, having enjoyed the fun that was involved with it and not having to take time out of work to do so.

These four staff development days have been added back due to the mandatory staff meetings before or after school hours were not meeting the quota for the current legislature of dates with the calendar and the full days were required to be added back. This change will be in effect as of the next school year.

Mrs. Kirpes said that the changes weren’t good changes because that Monday and Tuesday during the Thanksgiving week are family days. Many extended family members don’t live in Las Vegas and have to leave to spend time with family out-of-town while mentioning that the staff development days are much less enjoyable than the weekly meetings and would prefer if they stayed.

Mr. Kroboth also gave input on how he dislikes the change of the Thanksgiving week, as it is a good mental break and lets family get together for the holiday. He didn’t like how, when talking about the staff development day return, “they didn’t ask for their input when they took it away or when they brought it back.” He does, however, believe the staff development days are worthwhile.

The school year begins on Aug. 10, 2020, ending the fourth week of May to accommodate the staff development days. It will still be 180 days long.