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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I prefer the longer school year.  [/quote]

FCPS teacher here. I prefer the longer school year as well. We don't need more weeks off in the summer. (Actually, I'd really prefer a year round schedule with 9 weeks on and 3 weeks off.)[/quote]

You’re in the minority.[/quote]

I don’t know, this came up in our high school work room today—we all agreed it would be nice to have 9 weeks on, 3 weeks off, with a work day at the end of each quarter for grades and the few other major holidays that would have attendance impacts (thanksgiving). Summer could be 4 or 5 weeks—that’s enough.

The only voice of dissent was from someone who just inherited a beach house and is excited to spend long summers in it going forward, lol[/quote]

How would kids take "summer classes"  either to catch up or get ahead? [/quote]

I think it could actually be better for the “catch up” kids. We could focus on catching up 1/4 of material at a time instead of a whole year. Maybe if we gave them intensive first quarter support, they’d be capable of passing 2nd or 3rd quarter.

For the get ahead kids, aren’t summer courses usually 5 weeks? That would still work.

I’m not sure we should be making schedules for the 5% of kids who take summer classes to get ahead anyway though. It’s a “nice to have”, not a requirement. Things like PE or personal finance that kids do over the summer could also be done during the school year as an extra online class if really desired.
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