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Sandy fallout: Parents can't worry about spring break just yet

Sarah Grom of Stony Point walks her children

Photo credit: Angela Gaul | Sarah Grom of Stony Point walks her children to the car at the end of the school day at Stony Point Elementary School in Stony Point. "I'm both a parent and teacher," Grom said. "You can't do anything about nature. As a teacher, it's scary because the state test date won't change even if we add days on the end of the year. So we don't get the time with the kids that we need." (Nov. 8, 2012)

Stony Point Elementary School parents who came to pick their kids up from school Thursday parked just feet from a big pine tree ripped from its roots by Hurricane Sandy.

Though the hurricane ate up all of the North Rockland School District's snow days, threatening to disrupt vacations later in the year, parents said they have bigger things to worry about than spring break. They're working...

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