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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And it will creep ... it will get earlier and earlier in August.[/quote] Yes. The goal is to shorten the break as much as possible so that there is less time for kids to forget what they have learned. [/quote] No. the goal has been to simply add in more instructional time BEFORE the SOLs versus after it. The state sets the testing window, and it typically starts in mid-May. Beginning school a week earlier gives one more week of learning before the tests. What PP is proposing doesn't make sense because the school year will be the same length of 180 days. If FCPS starts lengthening breaks [i]inside [/i]the school year, i.e. giving a 2 week spring break and adding teacher planning days, then that would move the end date to later in June. Those types of moves would close the gap between the last day of school in June and the first day in August. I don't see any of that happening. [/quote]
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