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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just up the student holidays. Ridiculous! Sorry,  but we don’t need off for every religious holiday. Give them a fall break, winter break, February break and spring break, like other secular countries. And, let them out two weeks earlier in June. It has to be impossible to teach with all the sporadic days off.[/quote]

ITA and also, let's make it easier on teachers and students and make sure the breaks are aligned to the end of the quarter like they are in more secular countries - e.g., winter break comes at the end of January, not December, and spring break comes at the end of Q3, rather than being tied to Easter. This year, high school students are going to [b]have exams either the week before spring break in which case they come back after spring break and do nothing for a week,[/b] OR they're going to go on spring break and have to come back to exams. Either one is a ridiculous scenario.[/quote]

Hello? What do you think students do between exams? We hit the ground running with new material the moment they're back from break. We have a set curriculum to teach and never enough time to teach it.[/quote]

Which is why after SOLs my kids watch a bunch of movies and have carnivals and BMX stunt shows for the last month of school.[/quote]

In summary we can all agree that there is barely any school happening in a consistent manner this upcoming year. Between all the days off and the SOLs happening in May and school not ending till late June, there is a lot of wasted time. [/quote]

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