Is the 22-23 Calendar designed to be an f-u to parents?
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Anonymous
No one needs childcare for their teens, fyi. You are making an argument that has nothing to do with teens. If you had teens, you would know that learning in high school for all intents and purposes completely winds down to a stop once AP exams are over. This is for everyone. In fact, very little happens academically during the AP exams, for all grades. And finals week is half days, where kids only show up for their exams. If they have learning seminar and PE, for example, that finals day is off. |
Anonymous
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I don’t like all the extra holidays in fall especially since they are just getting going and same with the tons of O days although those are less bad.
But I do not get all the complaints about the ending date. We normally end the 2nd week of June. |
Anonymous
I was a teen who played sports and was in marching band and worked and thought summer was too long and kind of boring by the end of it. And I know that there are a good number of teens not playing a sport or participating in activities that start up early and who are not working. I also know that many teens who are work during the summer are able to work those same jobs during the school year and could probably pick up extra hours on the two week breaks if they want to do that. |
Anonymous
The entire Summer should be 10 weeks because we love the pool and travel to Europe and it is so great to hang out at the beach with the kids crowd. End school after AP exams and don’t restart until September because sports/activities/travel/family traditions/2 months of sleep away camp crowd don’t seem to understand that they are the minority in the County. Most kids will not take an AP exam. Their academic lives in High School are not driven by AP exams. Most families don’t belong to a neighborhood pool. Those are expensive and there are limited slots. Most people are not taking extended vacations to the beach or any where else. Working parents, expenses, and the like. Most kids are not in a sport or activity that starts back before school starts. Not changing the schedule to something that could benefit the majority of the County because the privileged few want to pay less for their beach vacation or more time at their community pool is ridiculous. For the record, my family belongs to the community pool (it is dead in August) and fully expect my kid to take AP classes (both of us did, he is capable of it). But I get that my kids privilege does not drive the entire counties schedule. Plenty of families would be better off if summer vacation was shorter and the kids would end up with the same number of vacations, they would be placed at points in time that would be better for the kids and Teachers. |
Anonymous
I’m a teacher and don’t mind. I like breaks during the year to help avoid burnout. |
Anonymous
How is it less? It’s the same 180 days as always. |
Anonymous
So your answer is that you do not know many teens . |
Anonymous
Yep, summers as a parent of a teen are so much easier than ES. |
Anonymous
...Why are Christmas and Easter 2 weeks and 1 week long, respectively? |
Anonymous
You won’t find any link to a “calander” or colander. |
Anonymous
Because that’s what people voted for and it’s what we did for the past few years. |
Anonymous
Because New Years is a week later. Both are federal holidays. Just way easier to lump the 2 together to make it a 2-week break especially since 98% of folks also have Christmas Eve and NYE off too. |
Anonymous
Tell me you don’t have HS kids without saying you don’t have HS kids. 
Schools are now starting to require an AP or IB class. And parents of teens don’t have childcare issues. Now, while we talk about equity and. Low income people do have teens who need to work in the summer. And this calendar makes that very hard. The kid can’t start until 3 weeks after Memorial Day. That’s a lot of season jobs going to college kids and not Hs kids. |
Anonymous
HS kids do. Look at the O Day data from this year. Diwali traditionally had *fewer* absences than normal. This year, HS kids just didn’t attend and absences were 27% higher. I let my senior skip. She had college apps and pointed out she could get more work done at home than with kids screwing around in a classroom while teachers graded papers. |
Anonymous
I’m aware that Diwali doesn’t move, but teacher workdays do. |