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[quote=Anonymous]At DCPS schools, you have to deal with 
a) teachers, their contracts, and their unions
b) some families won't like it, and if it's their in-boundary school, they aren't guaranteed another choice (this could be solved by pairing a traditional and an extended-year school, the way that kids zoned for bilingual schools have an English-only alternative)

EL Haynes is a year-round charter school. Several other schools (Stokes, for one) offer a lot of summer programming.

At all schools, finding staff willing to work year-round is a problem. Some schools also have facilities issues (poor AC, unshaded playgrounds) and/or want to use the summer to make renovations.

It strikes me that many wealthy families would dislike a year-round school (possibly unless the summer programming was basically a fancy summer camp) and it could hurt the economic diversity of a school. Kids who have poor attendance during a traditional school year would probably show up even less during the summer. And having vacation at unusual times of year could be problematic for families that don't have easy access to child care.[/quote]

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