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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we're talking about 20 additional days, I don't see how it is a big deal for families.  Your children will still get a considerable summer break to wind down or take summer enrichment classes.  I would prefer a longer year if that is going to allow for increased recess time and lunch time.  As it is, my DS who is a slow eater, only gets 20 minutes to eat lunch.  I always worry that he's not getting enough time to eat.  And recess time is reduced down so much now that it's a joke.  When I was a kid, we had two 30 minute recesses and an hour for lunch.  That is unheard of now.  For older kids too, they don't get enough breaks in between classes.  It is a lot to go from class to class to class with hardly any breaks and try to concentrate and make it through the day.  Because I'm not a teacher, I don't know what they must go through, but I can see teacher burn out as an issue, but again, it's only 20 additional days.  There are so many non-instructional days peppered in throughout the year, the day off really stack up.  [/quote]

I'm not a teacher, but I think "just 20 days" is actually quite a lot, both for kids and teachers. That's 4 whole weeks of school. It makes more sense to leave things as they are and offer quality summer programs for at risk kids.  It would be unfortunate to do anything that would cause DCPS to lose teachers and families. [/quote]

EXACTLY.  20 extra days is 4 weeks.  DCPS has a 9 week summer break, 2 weeks in December, and a week in April.  5 weeks in the summer is not a sufficient break (with no other break time).  [/quote]

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