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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 03-17-15  20:32 <=-

 NB>>> Those could be places to make up the snow days, I suppose...  :)
 RH>> They are, to some extent. The final ruling for Wake County was that
 RH>> year round students would make up on some Saturdays and other odd
 RH>> times, traditional calendar students would make up on the first 3
 RH>> days of spring break. No matter how they went, they couldn't please
 RH>> everybody.
 NB>> Especially families that had scheduled trips away for the spring
 NB>> break... 

 RH> That was one of the complaints most often heard. Vacations with non
 RH> refundable tickets had been scheduled months in advance.

That's the sort of thing that has parents taking kids out of school for
unexcused absences...  But at least the legalities of days/hours of
instruction would be met as a whole for the district...
 
 NB>> Things like that can make one glad that one's kid(s) are grown and one
 NB>> doesn't have to deal with that sort of headache any more... :)

 RH> I'm very glad of that. I would have considered home schooling, had we
 RH> youngsters at home when we moved here.

Good to be past all that...  :)
 
 RH>> I know Roberts was on a quarter system when Steve went, don't know if
 RH>> they are now or not.
 NB>> I'm pretty sure they've been on a semester system for quite a while
 NB>> now... I've had a couple of nieces go there, one for nursing a while
 NB>> back and the other for physics (combined with Mechanical Engineering
 NB>> at RIT)... the latter lived with us for a good chunk of the time...
 NB>> it was definitely semesters then for Roberts... and I'm pretty sure
 NB>> also for the earlier one... :)

 RH> OK, Steve's sister got her batchelor's in nursing a few years ago from
 RH> Roberts. She had the RN from a 2 year school but wanted the 4 year
 RH> degree for the job she was in. She didn't say too much about the
 RH> school tho.

Quarter system is more remarked than semester... most colleges and
schools use semesters, so not likely that it would cause any remarks,
unless she remembered that it had been on the other system when Steve
went, so many years ago...  Roberts is considered to be a good school
for Nursing, too... :)

 RH>> Everything was served pre plated, had student wait staff. I don't
 RH>> recall if seconds were allowed, how that was dealt with. Tables were
 RH>> set for 4 people, a waiter would have 3-4 to "man".
 NB>> It puts me in mind of certain nursing home dining rooms...  ;)

 RH> Mom's was like that, don't know about Dad's. Tho actually, in Mom's
 RH> all the staff took care of all the people, as each had the need for
 RH> care. Some staff had specific serving jobs but I saw a lot of those
 RH> helping people with their food the same way other staff did.

I was thinking more of the ones where the residents are higher
functioning... and at the living assist places...  Places like your
mom's, especially those floors, would have more of a need to have the
staff actually feed the residents...
 
 NB>> Maybe they hired better cooks for the main cafeteria...?

 RH> It was mostly done by students, with a few hired cooks. I think the
 RH> fact that they didn't have to make huge quantities of one thing made
 RH> the food better. They did smaller amounts of several things, making for
 RH> a better quality. While my sister was there tho, they went with a
 RH> professional food service and I think eliminated a lot, if not all of
 RH> the student cooks.

Probably things to be said for either system... the one provides student
aid jobs, the other gets rid of having to deal with the details... 

ttyl        neb

... Don't try pessimism. It won't work anyway....

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