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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer. [/quote]

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.[/quote]

Time to be a parent.  The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child. [/quote]

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.[/quote]

It's not like there is always e.g. Wednesday off and some consistent schedule on the rest of the days, it's a mess of random days off mixed with early releases. You can have the same number of hours (though I bet early release messes this too), but still make learning more challenging by spreading those hours inconsistently.[/quote]
I would guess elementary school parents are the most vocal about this calendar. It’s not just the childcare hardship. We have every day covered and the calendar has still been difficult. Many of the early release days fall on short weeks, so they’re in school Monday, off Tuesday, out early on Wednesday… and these were planned! Throw in snow days and delayed opening in between and the routine is chaos for young kids. [/quote]

Exactly, and young kids are the ones who need structure the most. Also, I think no one believes that there is much of instruction happening on early release days, this is such a disruption, that the even classes scheduled in the morning are suffering.[/quote]

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