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Old 08-05-2013, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by CFrance View Post
For anyone's information, the reason school in MI cannot start until after Labor Day is because tourism is so big there, with a big lobby, and they pushed that law through during Jennifer Granholm's administration.

There was a lot of $ lost over people not vacationing over Labor Day Weekend.
Tourism a lot bigger in Florida than Michigan. Businesses attempted to push back the start of school here also, not for just the visitors but to keep those high school kids who worked at the tourist destinations over the summer working through labor day.
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