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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because by mid-May, no matter if school starts in August or Sep, the kids are DONE.  They are burned out. The weather is sunnier and getting warmer and they want to be outside.  They want to have some freedom and relax. They have checked out and need to be out by early/mid June.

By mid/late-Aug. they are tired/bored of mostly being at home or the pool. Time to go back.

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right- but FCPS isn't out until June 16th- the same day as FCCPS, but FCCPS starts a week later.   FCPS added all kinds of random holidays this year and extended the school year.  The justification for the pre-labor day start was supposed to be to get more class in before SOL's- but where we are landing is pre labor day start and still worthless sitting in classrooms post SOL's.[/quote]

Yes - it is so frustrating. There is no need to have every holiday off. (And I say this as a Jew - I pull my kids for the High Holidays but see no need to not have school.) And why Veterans Day? And all the end of quarter days off that don't exactly align to holidays. Why not affix the workdays/end of the first quarter to Election Day (since the kids can't be in schools that day)? Why not attach the end of the semester work days to MLK Jr Day? Same for 3rd quarter/Spring Break. Even if they don't exactly align, with rolling gradebooks kids know where they are. Then the families get a few more longer weekends and not this disjointed mess. [/quote]

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