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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think this would go over well for the current school board members. Elementary parents seem the most angry about the current calendar -- likely because of the 3 hr early releases. Changing the last day of school this late would mess up so many summer camp plans, which largely affects elementary students. I'd bet there are a ton of parents using leave or work hour flexibility to cover the 2 days on the last week of school, especially anyone who has Juneteenth off. If they suddenly make the whole week off, those parents will be in a bad situation and rightly angry. This area requires you to have summer care plans figured out by January.  Changing it now will do nothing to help parents. Also, lower elementary students, who seem most hurt by the current Swiss cheese calendar do actually keep working into June because they don't have SOL.

It worked for Loudoun because my understanding is they already planned to have Mon June 15th as the last day. That's incredibly stupid to have a Mon as the last day of school, and I would bet anyone taking trips already just planned to skip and anyone needing camp either secured it for Tue-Fri or planned to skip for full week of camp.[/quote]

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