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Poll: Forecast for the new school year

One million plus public school students are expected back in school today,   though it's unclear whether attendance will be spotty given the awkward start to the 2010-11 school year.  Some families have decided to make Monday, September 13 their first day of school, choosing to squeeze in one last trip or to protest the September 8 start.

Regardless of how our readers felt about the 2010-11 school calendar or the other challenges faced in 2009-10, including those that lingered on throughout the summer, the majority of our poll takers in June gave the  last school year high marks.

We'd like to know your forecast for the new school year. Are you optimistic? Pessimistic? Or somewhere in between?

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