Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
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Anonymous
| Revive this thread the 3rd week of Aug. See how many people are complaining that their kids need to go back to school and summer break is too long. |
Anonymous
| No. My kids enjoy spending their summers at the pool with their friends and doing swim team.. Having a much shorter summer would impact that. As far as the academic slide, have your kids read, write, and, if you'd like, do a math workbook for thirty minutes per day over the summer. |
Anonymous
No problem here in August. But basically a week off after the two week winter break was a bear. PP I think the complaints with summer break being to long is not coming from the children. Just the parents who don't want to be bothered any longer. |
Anonymous
| Yes, yes, yes. Then maybe we can catch up to the rest of the world (not US) in education. |
Anonymous
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Hell yes, I would support year round school.
I do not need my kid to help me in the farm since this is not 1900's. I don't know any teens that work anymore... not even cut grass for money. They just inside the house and play video games all night and then come out at night drinking and peeing on the streets. |
Anonymous
| Doesn't swim team only go part of the summer anyway? It seems to at our neighborhood pool. They start while school is still in session, too. |
Anonymous
| I would completely support year-round school. Love the idea of longer and more frequent breaks so that kids get breaks more often rather than one long hot summer break. Four or five weeks during summer would still be long enough. |
Anonymous
Teachers have known about this since before you were born. signed Retired teacher |
Anonymous
OK, if you say so. But I guarantee it was NOT the bandied-about issue it is today way back when. Nor did we spend the first six weeks of school going repeating the entire math curriculum of the previous year. |
Anonymous
Idiot! 
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Anonymous
| No and it will most likely never happen. All of the school would need to be air conditioned first. I wonder how much that would cost. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I think PP had it right. Too many hyper parents trying to over-program everything. Many are probably the same folks who fought against adjusting high school start times later because kids needed to get used to early hours because that's what would be expected in the workplace. Ninnies! |
Anonymous
I'd heard this as a reason for post-Labor Day schedules. But this doesn't make much sense because poor states in the south start their kids in august. Do we have schools that aren't air conditioned? |
Anonymous
The logic of 'let them be kids' kills me. I grew up on a farm and our 'summer' work started even before school got out in May. It didn't matter if school was in session or not, chores began the same time every day and the cows had to be milked twice a day every day. We prepped fruit trees/beehives in the spring. We started seeds indoors in March. Began garden prep in April and worked most all day every day in early summer getting the vegetable gardens. If you had a break, you cut grass (there was always grass to cut). When we got bigger, there was hay to cut and bale (I never had to stack - was never big enough to really pick up the bales so I drove the tractor/baler). By the time July came around, it was time to start harvesting and selling vegetables. Tell me more about summer being a time for a kid to be a kid. |
Anonymous
just stop. Call it what it is. Year round. And NO! I would not be in favor of it. Freaking liberals with their euphemisms.
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