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One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem | GothamSchools

One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem | GothamSchools

One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem

What does a school do when the first day back is a Wednesday, but students have the rest of the week off?

While some parents and students are threatening to boycott the first day of school, one school has found a different way to use the day, though not for instruction.

The Beacon School, a selective high school on the Upper West Side, is using tomorrow as a purely