Schools

Will You Sign the Petition for a Balanced Calendar?

The debate over the schedule for Cobb County schools comes around again with an online petition.

Cobb Parents has created a petition using www.petitions24.com that urges the to approve a balanced calendar for the 2012-13 school year.

The group, which on the calendar issue last month, seeks a schedule with an early August start date and breaks in September and February. That was the calendar the Cobb Board of Education chose to .

That decision came after the school board but did not follow its results, which favored the balanced calendar.

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Northeast Cobb Patch asked people on its Facebook page whether they would sign the petition. The initial responses:

  • 10:30 a.m., Jack Siegel: NO and not going to.
  • 11:30 a.m., Robert Owens: β€Ž^^^ +1000.
  • 11:30 a.m., Jack Siegel: thanks. I like how the Patch has become the mouthpiece for a small minority who think bully tactics and mob rule decide the fate of the majority.
  • 11:40 a.m., Cobb Parents: Thanks, Northeast Cobb Patch!

Do you plan to sign the petition? Will it help resolve the Cobb school calendar dispute? Share your thoughts in the Comment Box below.

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