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"Multitrack should be used only as a matter of emergency and as a quick fix.
It's an attempt to crowd more students in the same building without offering
additional opportunities." John Hodge Jones, board member of the National
Association of Year-Round Education (The Tennessean, Nashville, TN, 2/1/96)
A principal in Fruita, CO, can see the light at the end of the never-ending
school year&emdash;"We're going to be out of this in two more years. We finally
passed a bond," he said. Evidently, the community liked the idea of paying
school taxes more than it liked the year-round-school.
(The Sun, Bremerton, WA, 11/24/96)
Year-round schools are only a stopgap measure. They will only buy time for
the new construction that must inevitably take place. There is clearly no
substitute for brick and mortar---Sandra Feldman, President, United
Federation of Teachers. (Chelsea-Clinton News, Chelsea, NY, 10/17/96)
The Monroe school district in Snohomich County passed a construction bond
this year and canceled its year-round schedule.
(Seattle Times, Bellevue, WA, 6/12/96)
"But the more I read, the more alarmed I became. In the U.S., where they
have multi-tracking in place, if a board manages to raise bonds and levies
to build a new school, you know the first thing they do? They go directly back
to the traditional calendar. That has to tell you something." Diana Ferguson,
parent and former teacher, Nanaimo, B.C.
(The Globe & Mail, Toronto, ON, 7/7/95)
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