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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is really no reason except that some people thought it was better to be in school in August rather than later in June for personal preference. I think there was misconception on the public’s part on the benefits of starting earlier when it went through.

Really the August start schedule only possibly helps with kids taking AP tests with set dates, & that said, the common app is always released on 8/1 so starting school earlier leaves them less time to work on the app while not in school so I wonder if it’s a wash either way in the end for these kids.

The SAT and ACT are offered 7x a year so school start date shouldn’t matter. Any time gained before one test date would be time taken from another.

There was a misconception that starting earlier would allow more time before the SOL but that was proven to be untrue this year when the SOL test dates were moved up a week to correspond with starting a week earlier, yielding the same amount of “wasted” time at the end of year either way. Turns out they were already back loaded as much as possible under the Labor Day start, which makes sense given that the SOL is a VA state test and the Labor Day start is a Va law.[/quote]

Yes to the above.
AP rules the roost.[/quote]

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