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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument. [/quote]

Having two half days instead of one whole day is not a net gain of 1.75 hours of instruction though. Kids will have lunch each of those two days and time will be spent on morning announcements, taking attendance, etc., both days. PP is correct: half days counts as instructional days for the purpose of reaching 180 instructional days, so two half days count for twice as many instructional days as one full day.[/quote]

But they don't have recess on half days in ES, so there's some time there.[/quote]

You still don’t add a full 1.75 hours of instructional time, even for ES students, and the majority of MCPS students (grades 6-12) don’t have recess, so that’s not factored into the equation.[/quote]

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