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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why the calendars don't make sense.  These are days that supposedly count towards the legal requirement but yet everyone knows that everyone is checked out.  If FCPS cared about education, this wouldn't be happening. We need to have more full weeks during/before SOLs when actual instruction is happening and have the summer start earlier. No one wants to be in school in June. These days shouldn't and don't count.[/quote]

I have said this dozens of times here and on the surveys for calendar-creation.  Once June 1st hits, everyone is checked out.  It is more productive to start the year earlier in Mid August, and then let people out in the first of June (or first week of June).  Mentally, people are still in school mode through May b/c there are AP exams and the weather isn't full on summer yet.  The stupid school board keeps pushing the school year into mid June by having so many holidays and days off.

Front-load the learning and let people out early June.  It also works well for camps/child care b/c college students are out in early May, so they are ready to run camps by June1st.  However, they go back to college (or need to get ready) by Mid August.  So, camps lose their staff.  Of course, I'm not going to get anywhere with this since they made a 3 yr calendar and by then, my last kid will be out of HS.  So, I pass the torch to someone else.  [/quote]

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