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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools and Virginia public schools have started after labor day for years and seem to be quite successful.  MD is now moving the entire state to this model as well.  Please don't start DC schools weeks before labor day.  Let kids enjoy their summer and don't make them feel that their schools are the pits so they have to be "punished" by starting earlier.

Some ways this could be achieved:

- Consolidate the many professional development days to the two weeks prior to Labor day.  
- Require teaching during the last two-three weeks of school (rather than watching movies while teachers dismantle their classrooms, etc.)
- Start school 15 - 30 minutes earlier (8:45 is very late for elementary school drop off)
- Hold parent-teacher conferences in the late afternoon/early evening rather than closing the school for a day (much easier for parents too)

I know many people like the move to year-round school, but many also like the "old school" way that we all grew up with.  [b]It gives kids time over the summer to have fun and be kids. [/b] Really, we all lived through that system and I'd say that it worked out fine for most (nothing works best for everyone). [/quote]

Unless you work and have to pay for child care/camp for all those days... This is a very SAHM perspective.[/quote]

All of those random Monday/Fridays off is way more disruptive to my child care needs.[/quote]

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