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[quote=Anonymous]We are at another school that is on the extended year calendar. The PP on your other Raymond thread doesn't like the model. I actually do like it, but it's not without flaws.

I like the fall break. I liked the intersession weeks that we had this year, as they extended winter break and spring break by an extra week for my child, who didn't need to go to intersession. This coming year, the first intersession week is randomly jammed in the middle of February, which is annoying. I do not mind the loss of a longer summer, but I know that many people dislike that. I think that in the schools where extended year is being implemented, the majority of kids are not going to enriching camps or spending relaxing time at home, and being in school means fewer transitions and less learning loss.

At our school, how much down time kids get varies. If kids are in aftercare, it's a long day, objectively, for any kid. I wish that I could actually leave work at 3pm every day to pick up DD and just take her home, but I can't. Our school noticed that the young kids were having a hard time with any kind of structured activities in aftercare, so they removed the structure. The kids go to a classroom, they play with centers (often new ones are opened for aftercare), they go to the PK playground, they have snacks. But there are no structured activities for them, really. Older kids have homework help and snack and then slightly more structure in that there will be an activity they can participate in or not as they wish. It's different every day. Yesterday it was something sporty. The day before that it was an art project.

Again, this isn't at Raymond, so Raymond's experience is probably different, but I like extended year and think it works well at our school.[/quote]

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