My name is Isaac and I'm a 7th grader in Brooklyn, New York. I love to think about calendars and I noticed a problem: Winter Break is scheduled to start on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, which means we will have a one-day week before the break.

This doesn’t make sense. Attendance will be very low that day. Kids whose families have travel plans will have to change their plans or be marked absent. Kids and teachers will feel annoyed, and kids won’t get to learn anything or have a party with all of their friends (because of the low attendance).

I know that if Chancellor David Banks drops a school day, he has to add one somewhere else. My suggestion is to move the last day of school from Thursday, June 26 to Friday, June 27. 

I know it’s not an easy job with so many holidays on the school calendar. (I have them memorized.) But I hope it’s not too late to avoid a silly one-day week.

Chancellor Banks, please fix the calendar!