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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no point in having school after students take the SOL.  If you pass the SOL your Summer should start.  If you fail, four more weeks of school and retake the test.  Schools could save money by only retaining the teacher they need to teach the retake students.  Everyone else, loses pay for working fewer days but gets a longer Summer break. [/quote]

We already have this at the high school. It's called summer school. Kids get 3 chances to pass the SOL: May, June, and July. Those who pass in May or June don't go in July.  We used to have it in elementary too--summer school for kids who needed the extra days.  Too bad it's cut from the budget this year.

But no, you will never get staff to take paycuts. (The FCPS facebook page has multiple posts about how teachers are going to make up the lost summer school pay since it's not happening in elementary this year) Goodbye to ever fully staffing an FCPS school again if PW and Loudoun and Alexandria are paying full contracts and FCPS is only paying 90%. I can't imagine many parents liking it either. School is free childcare--most kids are in camps all summer, so if they don't have school for 4 weeks that's ~$1500/kid families have to find.

The real issue is that no one is providing teachers with standards or curriculum for after the SOL, so it's up to tired, burnt out teachers to create engaging lessons from scratch on...who knows what. It would be AWESOME if central office gave us a list of standards to teach after the SOL, and gave us support (project ideas, resources, materials) to do so.  But they never will.[/quote]

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