For Save Our Summers-NC Supporters

URGENT REQUEST! Many of you know that the groups who so adamantly opposed the 2004 school calendar law have continued to lobby hard in hopes of watering down that law or rendering it useless. HB1464, which set August 25 and June 10 as parameters within which local school boards could plan their own calendars, has been flouted and its waiver provisions have been misused. A steady barrage of negative articles has served to mislead the public and plant doubts in their minds. As I type this, plans to change the law (so that school would start earlier in August) are being discussed. YOUR HELP IS CRUCIAL to ensure that this law – and our summers – remain intact! We are asking that you CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS by email and by phone and urge them to keep the 2004 school calendar law like it is! We have fought too long and too hard to sit back and watch our efforts go up in smoke. This needs to be done IMMEDIATELY, and in LARGE VOLUMES. Please, please share this information with everyone you can think of across the whole state of North Carolina – parents, teachers, friends, etc. YOU got the law passed – YOU can keep it intact. Thanks so much!