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1 <br />~~ <br />Association. "It's only a matter of time before a majority of kids are going to school at the end of July. <br />Current school calendars also leave businesses short of summer help as teenagers return to school. <br />"It's a problem having children to go back so early from an employment perspective," said Jim Godfrey, president <br />of the N.C. Travel Council and a retired business leader in Kinston. He said the Kinston Indians minor-league <br />baseball team often loses teenage workers in August. <br />Yet education leaders worry that the calendar bill would put the needs of businesses above those of schools. <br />"It sort of lets the school calendar become dependent on the needs of business and industry, like it did under the <br />old agrarian calendar," said Eddie Davis, vice president of the N.C. Association of Educators. "The education of <br />children becomes dependent on the needs of the work force." <br />A© Copyright 2003, The News & Observer Publishing Company. All material found ortriangle.com (including newsobserver.com, <br />carvnews.com, chaoelhillnews.com, smithfieldherald.com, and easternwakenews.com) is copyrighted The News & Observer Publishing <br />Company and associated news services. No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The News & Observer <br />Publishing Company, Raleigh, North Carolina. <br />The News & Observer Publishing Company is owned byThe McClatchy Comoany. <br />BAC K <br />2 of 2 4/3/2003 3:23 PM <br />