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[aj1980]

I hear so many people call this Thanksgiving eve. Some places  are closing early due to it being the day before.

So many people have taken off work, school etc.. When I was growing up we went to school up until Thanksgiving Day,  The kids nowadays have Professional days where they dont go to school,  we never had that.  Anyway I'm just waiting for  announcement to come sayin calling this offically "Thanksgiving eve"

[proudlyfromNJ]

@aj1980  What are professional days for school kids? Never heard of them.

[rockygems123]

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@aj1980 wrote:

I hear so many people call this Thanksgiving eve. Some places  are closing early due to it being the day before.

So many people have taken off work, school etc.. When I was growing up we went to school up until Thanksgiving Day,  The kids nowadays have Professional days where they dont go to school,  we never had that.  Anyway I'm just waiting for  announcement to come sayin calling this offically "Thanksgiving eve"

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@aj1980 

That would be a big problem if grocery stores closed earlier the day before Thanksgiving.

Prep can start the day or more before and that's when you discover what you thought you had isn't there.  Like flour for me, on the way to the store soon

[lgfan]

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@proudlyfromNJ wrote:

@aj1980  What are professional days for school kids? Never heard of them.

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Professional days are when teachers have in service trainings/meetings and the kids do not go to school.

[stevieb]

Increasingly, almost all holidays are becoming multi-day holidays. It's ridiculous. I can see allowing folks to take leave if they have it, assuming offices don't need to shut down to accommodate all the takers. I can see, perhaps, closing a couple of hours early or excusing non-essential workers early on the day before Thanksgiving or a few other major holidays, but, of course, that definition becomes open for debate and argument. For me, I've long thought it might make sense to make Christmas Eve at least a partial holiday, and Boxing Day, as a potential holiday, makes a lot of sense, but, as noted, that's my own thinking.

Where I live, the condo office, over the past few years, is increasingly useless anyway, providing no actual services to owners, even assuming they bother to answer the phone, but virtually every holiday has become a 'close early the day before and occasionally closed the day after' holiday. Many of us wonder why we have an office at all. It seems, though, that this approach to on-site work has now become epidemic.

[THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes]

I assume that the "Professional" days refers to teacher conference and meeting days?

We had those when I was in school.

But the more Holidays the better!

The more days off from school the better!

[lgfan]

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@stevieb wrote:

Increasingly, almost all holidays are becoming multi-day holidays. It's ridiculous. I can see allowing folks to take leave if they have it, assuming offices don't need to shut down to accommodate all the takers. I can see, perhaps, closing a couple of hours early on the day before Thanksgiving or a few other major holidays, but, of course, that definition becomes open for debate and argument. For me, I've long thought it might make sense to make Christmas Eve at least a partial holiday, and Boxing Day, as a potential holiday, makes a lot of sense, but, as noted, that's my own thinking.

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I think that Halloween should be made an official holiday.  

[Janey2]

We are becoming a very lazy society. We have enough holidays. If you work and have to entertain for the holidays if you manage it properly it is doable.  as far as the no school we are in serious trouble with our children being years behind. Less school days will not help them. 

[millieshops]

In my little PA town, we went to school M-W before Thanksgiving, but we had a 4 day weekend -  schools closed the Monday after Thanksgiving.  That was the first day hunters could legally use rifles to go deer hunting.

When I first started to teach on LI, we also did full days M-W before Thanksgiving, but at some point I know that Wednesday became a partial day.  I don't remember what the reasoning was.  We did not have the deer-hunting holiday.

School calendars I'm familiar with vary, but the number of required days in any state I've known are set by the state.  Local boards have some leeway in determining how to meet the requirements.  Teacher work days, meeting days, whatever name they are given have never counted as attendance days in the districts I've known.  They were, however, part of the negotiated contracts of employment.

[VanSleepy]

Funny to see this since just about an hour ago I heard a bunch of kids outside and wondered since when do you get out early for the day before Thanksgiving.