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“We people in the General Assembly have no business, no business whatsoever, in getting involved in the day-to-day activities of local school boards,” Sen. Houck said.
“Who knows best what serves the welfare of the local public schools and their students?” asked Sen. John C. Buchanan (D-Wise).
Sen. Buchanan also argued that forcing schools to open after Labor Day would force school divisions to either extend the school year into June to fulfill the requirement of 180 school days or stay open in bad winter weather, a potential danger to children in school buses, especially on the icy mountain roads of Southwest Virginia, where Sen. Buchanan lives.
“This is a direction backwards,” declared Sen. Stanley C. Walker (DNorfolk), chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee, which advanced the bill last week after an initial vote to kill it.
Sen. Truban, who carried the bill in the Senate for Del. Smith, tried to reassure his colleagues by emphasizing its initial two-year limit and the
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“History, tradition and climatic conditions all dictate against school opening before Labor Day,” he said. “There is plenty of time between Labor Day and mid-June, when the vacation season typically begins, to schedule the mandatory 180-day school term.
Like human behavior, civilization is made and not bom. Like life itself, it must be nourished day by day, ceaselessly, with new energy and new materials, or it sickens and dies.
— Charles A. Dorsey
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